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FIRST IN HIS CLASS David Maraniss (Touchstone, $14, first published in 1995) An evenhanded account of Bill Clinton's life right up to the day he announced his presidential candidacy. Not surprisingly, Clinton comes across as a compulsively people-pleasing achiever, apt to bring the teacher an apple if he didn't weaken and gobble it first on the way to school. A-

 
 

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