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English

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North American (General)

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Hillary Rodham's childhood was not the suburban ideal suggested by the shaded front porch and gently sloping lawn of what was once the family home at 2 35 Wiesner Street and Park Ridge, Illinois. In this leafy environment of Postwar promise and prosperity, the Rodhams were distinctly a family of odd ducks, isolated from their neighbors by the difficult character of her father, Hugh Rodham, a sour, unfulfilled man whose Children suffered his relentless, demeaning sarcasm and misanthropic inclination, endured his embarrassing parsimony and silently accepted his humiliation and verbal abuse of their mother, yet is harsh, provocative and abusive is Rodham Waas. He and his wife, the former Dorothy Howell, imparted to their Children a pervasive sense of family and love for one another. That, in Hillary's case, is of singular importance. Dorothy and Hugh Rodham, despite the debilitating pathology and under tow of tension in their marriage, discerned readily by visitors to their home. We're assertive parents who at mid century intended to convey to their Children an inheritance secured by old fashioned values in verities. They believed and preached in their different traditions that with discipline, hard work encouragement often delivered in an unconventional manner and enough education at home school and church, a child could pursue almost any dream