Before he was voted into office, Bill Clinton told the authors in an interview that he wanted to be a transforming leader -- a president who would fashion real and lasting change in people's lives, in the tradition of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.But how has this president, who has sought to lead from the center, measured up against his own stated goal -- and the aspirations and performances of other presidents since World War II? From the health-care debacle and the 1994 midterm elections that swept the Republicans to a majority in both houses of Congress, to the scandalous affair with a White House intern (and impeachment that threatened his very political survival), Dead Center examines the centrist leadership style of a president who has divided the traditional Democratic party and tried to rule in new ways.