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Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton
by Barbara Olson
Hardcover (25 November, 1999)
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Hell to Pay is yet another book on Hillary Rodham Clinton, this time from a conservative lawyer who served as the Republican chief counsel for the congressional committee investigating the Clintons' involvement in "Travelgate" and "Filegate." Barbara Olson traces the now familiar biographies of the president and first lady, contending that Mrs. Clinton is someone with dangerously liberal, even radical, political beliefs who "now seeks to foment revolutionary changes from the uniform of a pink suit." (Olson plays the theme heavily: each chapter of Hell to Pay begins with quotes from Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, which influenced the young Hillary Rodham.)

There are some interesting new tidbits scattered throughout the book, like the fact that after law school Hillary Rodham tried to become a Marine Corps officer but was turned down; or that she told her high school paper her ambition after high school was "to marry a senator and settle down in Georgetown." Olson, attempting to dissect the mystery of the Clinton partnership, writes, "Most self-respecting women would have left" after Clinton's repeated infidelities. "Hillary chose to stay. She behaves as both a desperate lover, and like a frantic campaign manager protecting a flawed candidate.... Hillary, it seems, long ago accepted Bill Clinton as someone who could advance her goals, as a necessary complement to her intellectual cold-blooded pursuit of power." As the Clinton presidency draws to a close, that pursuit has taken her beyond the White House toward a bid for her own U.S. Senate seat. Olson predicts the Senate won't be enough, just the next step toward becoming the first woman president: "Hillary Clinton seeks nothing less than an office that will give her a platform from which to exercise real power and real world leadership." While Olson admits that "Bill Clinton has always excited the greatest passion not among his supporters, but among his detractors," the same could certainly be said of his wife--whose supporters will probably consider Hell to Pay a rehash of a too-familiar story, but whose detractors will no doubt savor every page. --Linda Killian ... Read more

Isbn: 0895262746
Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Career in politics    6. Clinton, Hillary Rodham    7. Ethics    8. Historical - U.S.    9. Lawyers & Judges    10. Political    11. Political activity    12. Presidents' spouses    13. United States    14. Women    15. Current Issues   


$18.45

The Case Against Hillary Clinton
by Peggy Noonan
Hardcover (01 April, 2000)
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At the beginning of this slim polemic, Peggy Noonan states that she does not hate the first lady, she merely has contempt for her, and in The Case Against Hillary Clinton she explains precisely why. Noonan's objections to Hillary Clinton and her husband ("to understand her you have to understand him") are based both on ideology and style--Noonan considers the Clintons to be self-involved know-it-alls who "stand for one thing: maximum and uninterrupted power for the Clintons." "They have made the American political landscape a lower and lesser thing," she writes. "They have stopped good things from happening, and have allowed bad things to occur; when caught they have covered up and dissembled." Noonan describes Hillary's bid for a Senate seat in a state not her own as "a thing of utter and breathtaking gall." She further dismisses Mrs. Clinton's ability to lead at all, citing the botched health-care initiative, Filegate, Travelgate, and chronic lying by both of the Clintons as evidence. Perhaps Noonan's most persuasive argument against Hillary is that, although she has been in a position to do much good, she has accomplished little on her own: "I am often frustrated with her because she could do some real good, and at a crucial time, and doesn't.... I can't think of a single time in seven years that she jeopardized her position with her base to make progress for her country."

A speechwriter for Ronald Reagan who chronicled her own White House experiences in the book What I Saw at the Revolution, Noonan exercises plenty of creative license in these pages, mostly effectively by inventing dialogue, events, and inner thoughts that serve to illustrate Mrs. Clinton's motives and character as Noonan sees them. And the author notes, as have others, that Mrs. Clinton's Senate race is likely just a first step on the road to the White House: "So New York is the battle that may decide the war. This Senate bid has huge implications, not only for New York State but for the nation," she writes. In all, a persuasive case elegantly presented. --Linda Killian ... Read more

Isbn: 0060393408
Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Career in politics    3. Clinton, Hillary Rodham    4. Current Affairs    5. Ethics    6. General    7. Government - U.S. Government    8. New York (State)    9. Political    10. Political Process - Leadership    11. Political activity    12. Politics - Current Events    13. Politics/International Relations    14. Presidents' spouses    15. United States    16. Women political candidates   


$16.32

American Evita : Hillary Clinton's Path to Power
by Christopher Andersen
Hardcover (06 July, 2004)
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Early on, relates Christopher Andersen in American Evita, Bill and Hillary Clinton created "The Plan"---an arrangement in which the Clintons would reverse roles once he was out of office and Mr. Clinton would help his wife reach her ultimate goal: the presidency. Now that Mrs. Clinton is a Senator from New York, the second part of The Plan is in effect, and regaining the White House is only part of it--if elected president, Mrs. Clinton would also, according to Andersen, work to get her husband installed as a Supreme Court Justice. It becomes clear over the course of this book that Mrs. Clinton was the guiding hand during her husband's two terms, including heading up the near-constant damage control required as a result of a string of scandals and her husband's reckless behavior. This was not done out of loyalty to her husband, Andersen stresses, but because she recognized that she needed to save him in order to further her own career later on. Though much of the information in this book has been printed before, Andersen does offer tantalizing new details about Mrs. Clinton's long-running affair with Vince Foster, the numerous pardons of criminals that were made in the final days of the Clinton administration in order to help Mrs. Clinton's Senate bid, her self-serving actions in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and her efforts to constantly upstage the 2004 Democratic nominees for president, particularly John Kerry. Part of the reason for doing this, Andersen maintains, is that she actually wants the Democrats to lose the presidential election in 2004 in order to better set the stage for her own run in 2008. One cannot read this book without being struck by the fact that nearly every move Mrs. Clinton has made over the past 30 years has been calculated, and in this regard American Evita is a fascinating depiction of "the most famous, most controversial, most complex, most loved-hated-admired-reviled woman---perhaps person---in America." --Shawn Carkonen ... Read more

Isbn: 0060562544
Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Clinton, Hillary Rodham    6. First Ladies    7. General    8. Historical - U.S.    9. Legislators    10. Political    11. Presidents' spouses    12. United States    13. Biography & Autobiography / General   


$17.13

She Took A Village
by Alan Gottlieb
Paperback (01 May, 1998)
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Isbn: 0936783192
Sales Rank: 1101407
Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Clinton, Hillary Rodham    6. Political    7. Presidents' spouses    8. United States    9. Women    10. Current events    11. Politics   


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Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America
by Roger Morris
Paperback (25 April, 1999)
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Absent a royal family, the American people have developed a thirst for subjects for gossip from on high. In Bill and Hillary Clinton, they have them. Roger Morris charges the first family with misdeeds committed while upon the throne in Arkansas: Bill taking money from Whitewater partner James McDougal; Hilary using well-connected brokers to win fabulous returns on her investments; the governor's affairs; and their friendship with a drug-dealing bond daddy, to name a few. Those after the dirt on the Clintons will love this wheelbarrow full of it. ... Read more

Isbn: 0895263025
Subjects:  1. 1946-    2. 1951-    3. Arkansas    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Clinton, Bill,    7. Clinton, Hillary Rodham    8. Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations    9. General    10. Government - U.S. Government    11. Politics - Current Events    12. Politics and government    13. Biography & Autobiography / General   


$17.95

Madame Hillary : The Dark Road to the White House
by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., Mark W. Davis
Hardcover (25 February, 2004)
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Isbn: 0895260670
Sales Rank: 107292
Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Clinton, Hillary Rodham    4. Ethics    5. First Ladies    6. Government - Legislative Branch    7. Legislators    8. Political    9. Political Process - Leadership    10. Political Science    11. Politics/International Relations    12. Presidents' spouses    13. U.S. Senate    14. United States    15. Women    16. Women And Politics    17. Women legislators    18. Biography & Autobiography    19. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    20. Political Science / Leadership    21. Political leaders & leadership    22. USA   


$11.18

No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family
by Christopher Hitchens
Paperback (July, 2000)
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The most vocal critics of Bill Clinton's presidency tend to be conservatives--think, for example, of William J. Bennett's The Death of Outrage--but there are those on the Left who are fed up with Clinton as well. Among them is journalist Christopher Hitchens (most prominently associated with The Nation and Vanity Fair), who has produced a slim but vehement volume outlining how "Clinton's private vileness meshes exactly with his brutal and opportunistic public style." No One Left to Lie To is the story of a man who took the Democratic presidential nomination and, having achieved office, began enacting welfare reform and anticrime legislation that surpassed the ambitions of all but the most ideologically loyal Republicans--and routinely plundered the GOP platform for other policy ideas as well.

Hitchens is particularly damning on Clinton's tendency to resort to divisive racial politics when it suits his purposes, as when, in the course of the 1992 presidential campaign, he refused to lift a finger to save a mentally retarded African American from state execution so he could appear tough on crime, then shortly afterwards hijacked a Rainbow Coalition conference to criticize rap artist Sister Souljah for the benefit of the attendant press. When he needs the black vote, though, Clinton will allow himself to be trumpeted as the most racially sensitive president in American history--if not, in Toni Morrison's memorably ludicrous phrase, "our first black president." Furthermore, the man who once connived his way out of the draft has become a chief executive so willing to use military air strikes as a means of foreign policy that, in the author's view, the United States is now a "potential banana republic."

Of course, there is plenty of vitriol directed at Clinton's conduct with regard to Monica Lewinsky (the woman with whom he admitted, under duress, to having had an "inappropriate relationship" consisting of multiple incidences of oral sex) and Kathleen Willey (who alleges that the leader of the free world merely fondled her breasts and forced her to touch--albeit shielded under some layers of clothing--his tumescent penis). In Hitchens's view, however, the sexual controversies are only the most prominent aspect of Clinton's shameful character, a moral condition that must be considered in toto. The book is short, with an argument that runs only about a hundred pages, but that's still more than enough room for Hitchens to serve up a comprehensive, blistering indictment suffused throughout by his dark wit. He sums up the failure of those fixated on Clinton's adultery to fully investigate his cronyism and financial shenanigans: "It's not the lipstick traces, stupid," Hitchens warns, "it's the Revlon Connection." --Ron Hogan ... Read more

Isbn: 1859842844
Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. American    3. Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations    4. Current Affairs    5. Government - U.S. Government    6. History    7. Political corruption    8. Politics - Current Events    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Truthfulness and falsehood    11. United States   


$9.60

Unlimited Access : An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House
by Gary Aldrich
Paperback (25 January, 1998)
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By now the whory notion of doing a tell-all book about your boss, the President, is a hoary one too. (It dates back to Ike, who got the treatment from one of his doctors.)But with this book, the Clinton administration breaks new ground by being on the receiving end of a kiss-and-sell from a member of the White House security staff.Aldrich was an FBI agent assigned to the White House under both Bush and Clinton who, as this book makes clear, didn't think the changeover was progress. He mostly fixes on anthropological differences: the Bush staffers were neat and straight, the Clintonites were sloppy and had kinky work- shift sex a stone's throw from the Oval Office. Who knows if it's true? Who knows if Aldrich was debating between this and other more devastating forms of revenge available to a presidential guard? ... Read more

Isbn: 0895264064
Subjects:  1. American    2. Current Affairs    3. Employee screening    4. Government - U.S. Government    5. Officials and employees    6. Political    7. Politics - Current Events    8. Politics/International Relations    9. Presidents    10. Selection and appointment    11. Staff    12. United States   


$10.85

State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton
by Jerry Oppenheimer
Hardcover (18 July, 2000)
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Isbn: 0060193921
Sales Rank: 596536
Subjects:  1. 1946-    2. American    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. Clinton, Bill,    8. Clinton, Hillary Rodham    9. Contemporary Politics    10. First Ladies    11. Marriage    12. Married people    13. Political    14. Presidents    15. Presidents & Heads of State    16. Presidents' spouses    17. United States    18. Clinton, Bill   


$25.00

The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
by Barbara Olson
Hardcover (25 October, 2001)
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Isbn: 0895261677
Sales Rank: 83543
Subjects:  1. 1946-    2. 20th century    3. Biography    4. Clinton, Bill,    5. Clinton, Hillary Rodham    6. Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations    7. Ethics    8. Government - U.S. Government    9. History    10. History & Theory - General    11. Political History    12. Political Process - Leadership    13. Political Science    14. Political corruption    15. Politics - Current Events    16. Politics/International Relations    17. Presidents    18. Presidents' spouses    19. U.S. Political History    20. U.S. President    21. United States    22. Clinton, Bill    23. Political Science / Reference   


$27.95

Hillary's Scheme : Inside the Next Clinton's Ruthless Agenda to Take the White House
by CARL LIMBACHER
Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover (22 July, 2003)
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5-0 out of 5 stars Excellent book and has a lot of valuable information
Hillary's Scheme is a great book.

If you are considering voting for the loser known as Hillary Clinton, please read this book.

If you plan not to vote for her, read this book to know why.

5-0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff
The subject of Hillary elicits the anticipated amount of hatred from the righties, many of whom consider her to be the most dangerous person in the country.The hated of the lefty posters on this board is aimed at the conservatives, as usual, complete with the usual finger pointing and name calling.As Shakespeare reminded us, nothing is either good of bad, thinking makes it so.This book is interesting and well written, but exposes little of anything new to me personally.It is well documented that Hillary is socialistic at best (the idiocy called Hillary-Care tells us that) and if the truth really be known, she may well be quasi-communist all the way back to her dealings with ComradeAlinsky.She and others like her (Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer for example) appointed themselves long ago to restructure this country in line with their personal viewpoint of what is right.The fact is that her grandoise plans cannot tolerate the truth and are slowly falling apart, much like the vampire who wilts and dies in the sunlight.Her newly found religiosity and empathy for the pro-life faction is comical to the informed.If she is to win, I hope she has a plan for winning in "flyover country," and in particular the south.I live in the heartland and Hillary couldn't win an election for trash collector here.Her run in 2008 may well spell the end of the Liberal-European-Communist-Socialist movement (whatever it is) for decades, and the Clintons as I long ago predicted, will have critically wounded the Democratic party for a long time.Stupid is as stupid does.

4-0 out of 5 stars The 20 year campaign
Carl Limbacher uses this book to argue that Hillary is the archetypal scheming politician. Don't believe the outward appearances, he argues. Instead, look at the track record and determine for yourself what Hillary Clinton would do as president.

The first six of 14 chapters address actions taken by Hillary in 2003 which might be interpreted as 'campaigning' for the presidency.At the end of Chapter 6, we get told her candidacy is probable.Of course, this didn't turn out to be what happened.

With Chapter 7, Limbacher begins to make a case that the 'scheme' is not limited to just the 2004 election. To accomplish this, he tries to make a character study of the former First Lady. First of all, she is always angry. This anger seems to get away from her at times, and emerges as exceptionally rude racial comments that would ruin the career of normal mortals. Second, she channels this anger into 'constant campaigning'.Third, she has been aiming at the Presidency since at least 1992.The 'scheme' isn't just something for the 2004 election; the scheme has probably been in place for 20 years.

The continuous campaign makes pretty interesting reading.At Yale, she championed Black Panthers who were eventually convicted for torturing and murdering a fellow Black Panther.She then moved on to the Nixon Watergate circus, and then to Bill Clinton's electoral campaigns.If all this wasn't enough work, she had to silence the countless women seduced, entrapped or raped by Bill Clinton. Limbacher argues that her record of hiring and supervising private investigators shows exceptional talent. Along these lines, Limbacher makes some fairly well substantiated claims that this remarkable talent was used to instigate IRS audits against Bill Clinton's political opponents during her years as First lady.

In fact, this role as 'Protector of Bill' is Limbacher's best argument for raising red flags about Hillary Clinton and her Presidential ambitions. He starts by arguing that Bill Clinton was and is a sexual predator.In the court of public opinion, he is guilty of at least one rape (Ms. Juanita Broderick).Limbacher than asserts Hillary was the key individual protecting Bill from spending time in jail, as the average sex offender would do.Thus, Hillary is culpable for subjecting Bill's staff to the rapes and abuse it suffered.Casting Hillary as 'rapist enabler' provides the 'proof' to Limbacher's title: Hillary's Scheme.

There is nothing on her policies as Senator, or campaigning points for the 2004/2008 presidential campaign.

The author, Limbacher works for NewsMax, a web-based conservative media outlet.

The book is more than a little dated now that the 2004 election is over.It is an easy read, though.The arguments address a 20 year campaign and not 'just' the 2004 election.Limbacher is preaching to the converted, and doesn't do much to address the bipolar reaction to Hillary one sees among the general voting public.The logic, if I have identified it correctly, could be better presented. It is a campaign book and has a breathless quality, but it really isn't about the campaign.Additionally, it makes few predictions.It doesn't go out on a limb and say 'watch for this...' As Hillary's 2008 campaign unfolds, it will be hard to determine if Limbacher was right or wrong.
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Isbn: 0761531157
Sales Rank: 229917
Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Clinton, Hillary Rodham    3. General    4. Government - U.S. Government    5. Political Science    6. Politics - Current Events    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Presidential candidates    9. Presidents' spouses    10. United States    11. Women legislators    12. Current Events / General   


The Hillary Trap: Looking for Power in all the Wrong Places
by Laura Ingraham
Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Hardcover (15 January, 2000)
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1-0 out of 5 stars Paris Hilton takes on Hillary
Let's face it the only reason this Ms. Ingram has a career is that she is sort of attractive and conservative, a combination that apparently filled a need in our Faux media universe. (Also nice to be able to trot out Laura so as to prove that the fear of women embodied in Rush's quaking "femi-nzai" doesn't entirely translate into male Star War fan level of female company.) And let's also be fair she's no worse a hack than Hannity and is at least a bit more coherent than Ann Coulter. Her book on Hillary is just plain fatiguing, throw out some carefully spun ideas that Hillary supposedly represents than trash the straw woman Laura has created. Repeat this exercise endlessly and you have this book. Even while skipping a fair bit I was beginning to crave a little Coulter lunacy to keep things from getting too drab but no such luck. Ms. Ingram, unlike Ann, actually looks good in a leopard skin mini skirt, so why not some photos of that to keep one awake? Or are we supposed to pretend this is a serious book?

3-0 out of 5 stars Hillary is dangerous--but you already knew that.
As a disclaimer, let me say that I am a fan of Laura Ingraham's, but I am NOT a fan of Hillary Clinton.You might think that would translate into a rave review for this book, but it doesn't.The basic construct of each chapter is to take a liberal position, demonstrate how Hillary embodies it, and then offer a body of evidence rebutting the position and proving that Clinton is anti-democratic, anti-woman, anti-choice and anti- nearly everything else good and decent.It should be a devastating critique, but it isn't--what comes across is a loosely connected series of chapters with talking points and arguments that suggest Hillary is the personification of what's wrong with America today.And that's the problem--Ingraham would have been more persuasive if she had focused on the most egregious of Hillary's flaws instead of trying to indict Clinton on everything under the sun. Despite the fact that Ingraham litters the book with facts and data (most of which are nice tidbits for any argument you may get into with a Clintonista), it all gets monotonous very quickly and can even seem a little petty at times.All in all, it is a quick, readable political book (think "beach book") with several very good standalone chapters, but it doesn't deserve a place on the conservative bookshelf pantheon.Save that for something from Bork, Schlafly or Buckley.

4-0 out of 5 stars Sister Sister
The Hillary Trap is a reader which exposes the failed feminist theory still being pushed by the victim fanfare of the Hillary Clan.In it are seven sections each titled with a different trap."The sisterhood trap," "The Education Trap," "The Work Trap," etc. which are all traps utilized by Hillary and her group-thinkers to spread the disease of victimhood thinking, lesson individual responsibility and freedom, and gain more government control for "The Village," theory.

An important read for anyone who wishes to clarify the underpinnings of feminist group-thinking, victimization attitudes, or social theory concerning personal responsibility and the tacits of personal freedom.

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Isbn: 0786863331
Sales Rank: 515799
Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Clinton, Hillary Rodham    3. Feminism    4. Feminism & Feminist Theory    5. Gender Studies    6. General    7. History & Theory - General    8. Presidents' spouses    9. Self-Help    10. Social conditions    11. Sociology    12. United States    13. Women    14. Self-Help / General   


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Sleeping With the President: My Intimate Years With Bill Clinton
by Gennifer Flowers
Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Paperback (01 September, 1996)
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1-0 out of 5 stars Non-Fiction?
The people that believe Eula Mae Flowers and consider her "story" relevent have not bothered to find out the facts.

1-0 out of 5 stars You'd have thought...
...Gennifer would have picked up a few new insights or at the very least a couple new words/ways of expressing what had to be some intertesting experiences since 1992....but sadly, this is often a word-for-word repeat of her other book.President Clinton knows how to pick them...so even when they write a "tell all" they simply haven't a good enough grasp of the English language to make it interesting.If he ever picked someone with more than a fifth grade vocabulary...watch out America!

5-0 out of 5 stars Quite Believable
I read this book as a skeptic.However, in spite of a lot of sleazy details I found Ms. Flowers very believable.Hats off for having the courage to write this in-depth look at the dark and seamy side of this man. ... Read more

Isbn: 1889801003
Sales Rank: 830106
Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Political    5. Women   


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Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Hardcover (09 June, 2003)
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As with most books written by politicians while in office (or at least aiming for one), Living History is, first and foremost, safe. There are interesting observations and anecdotes, the writing is engaging, and there is enough inside scoop to appeal to those looking for a bit of gossip, but there are no bombshells here and it is doubtful the book will change many minds about this polarizing figure. This does not mean the work is without merit, however, for Hillary Clinton has much to say about her experience as first lady, which is the primary focus of the book. Those interested in these experiences and her commentary on them will find the book worth reading; those looking for revelations will be disappointed.

Beginning with a brief outline of her childhood, college years, introduction to politics, and her courtship with Bill Clinton, Clinton covers a wide variety of topics: life on the campaign trail, her troubled tenure as leader of the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform, meeting with foreign leaders, and her work on human rights, to name a few. By necessity, she also addresses the various scandals that plagued the administration, from Travelgate to Whitewater to impeachment, though she does not go into great detail about each one; rather, she seems content to simply state her case and move on without trying to settle too many old scores.

Along the way, she offers many apologies, though perhaps not the kind some would expect. She does not shy away from her "vast right-wing conspiracy" comment, for instance, though she does wish that she had expressed herself differently. Regarding the Monica Lewinsky scandal, she maintains that her husband initially lied to her, as he did the rest of the country, and did not come clean until two days prior to his grand jury testimony. Calling his betrayal "the most devastating, shocking and hurtful experience of my life," she explains what the aftermath was like personally and why she has elected to stand by her man. In all, Living History is an informative book that goes a long way toward humanizing one of the most recognizable, and controversial, women of our age. Shawn Carkonen ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Useful and insightful
This book definitely makes one thing very clear - that Hillary married Bill for what he was then and NOT for what he could become later. The time when she met Bill Clinton (they have been together since), no one knew he wud be President.

She does do some explaining for Whitewater, and though lots of people may not believe her, it was interesting to learn that they were investigated for losing money in that investment (one wud think they made millions on it). I even verified with the Whitewater reports online that ultimately the Clintons were given a complete clean chit on this.

The book is self-serving in many respects, which could have been avoided and is off-putting. Last but not the least, I do feel that Hillary Clinton has a larger than life persona and can be pretty tough as nails. But really - she is a politician and has been one for a very long time. If she ever does run for higher office - no one can doubt that she has the guts and political acumen to do the job of a President.

5-0 out of 5 stars Interesting Book
I am a strong democrat/democratic supporter and I love politics so when this book came out I knew I would get it! I really enjoyed reading this book from beginning to end - it was never boring. I have had the pleasure of meeting the Clintons when I attended a democratic convention - it was alot of fun. I think regardless of republican or democrat any woman would enjoy reading this book - politics aside we are all people. I think alot of people do not know the difference between republican and democrat that is why alot of young people don't vote but alot of people also don't know that Hillary was a republican for a long time but then she realised she didn't have the same views as republicans and that's when she turned democrat.

After pursuading my boyfriend to read this book he really like it too. I can say one things for sure - I hope the rumors are true and that she runs in 2008. I think she would make a fantastic president!

1-0 out of 5 stars It's clear Hillary missed her true calling...
After reading this book, it's clear Mrs. Clinton has missed her true calling...writing fiction. Oh, wait...she has. This book IS pure fiction, facts Hillary wanted the reader to believe. Anyone who closely follows politics, however, knows the facts have been highly polished at times Hillary wants the reader to think the best of her. Her descriptions of events which weren't as flattering to her, however, have been carefully stated and downplayed.It's been documented by many sources that Mrs. Clinton tells untruths...even one about her own name. So why should we believe her accounts in this book. We should be praying she doesn't become president or it will be Richard Nixon (deja vu) all over again! If you believe the events in this book to be totally accurate, I have some swamp land here in Louisiana to sell you. ... Read more

Isbn: 0743222245
Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Clinton, Hillary Rodham    6. First Ladies    7. Historical - General    8. Historical - U.S.    9. Legislators    10. Political    11. Presidents' spouses    12. United States    13. Women legislators    14. Biography & Autobiography / General   


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Rewriting History
by Dick Morris
Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover (04 May, 2004)
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It's one thing to review a book by pounding out a few hundred words of criticism but it's quite another to review a book by writing an entirely new book. That's what Dick Morris, former advisor to President Bill Clinton, has done in Rewriting History, an energetic response to Hillary Clinton's Living History. Mrs. Clinton, Morris warns, is on a direct path to the White House due to a lack of Democratic alternatives and a leftward trend in the nation; therefore America must evaluate who she really is and not just what her memoir says. Morris's book is actually remarkably similar to the slew of attack books published about recent presidents but with the crucial difference that Hillary is at the very least four years away from the Oval Office. So Morris's criticisms of her, though backed up by a 20-year relationship with the Clintons, are rarely more than speculative, worrying about what she might do and asking ominous questions that are inherently unanswerable. Hillary Clinton, in Morris's view, is a much more insecure, disingenuous, and calculating creature than "Hillary," the palatable political product that won election to the Senate in 2000 and she's also an inferior politician to her husband. But as a political operative who has worked for both conservatives and liberals, Morris's indictments of Clinton evolve into a grudging respect as he demonstrates her considerable political resolve. All the same, he refutes many passages in her book with his own accounts of what transpired and indicts her integrity and behavior dating back to Bill Clinton's early career in Arkansas. Going forward, he says, she must decide whether to rely on her behind-the-scenes political acumen or embrace actual convictions. Often, Morris puts Clinton in no-win situations. For instance, while First Lady, she decides to get a dog, a decision that Morris infers is entirely politically motivated despite Clinton saying that it was because daughter Chelsea had moved out. Thus, if she had "admitted" her motivation was political, it would be an admission of cynicism and manipulation, but if she protests that her motives were simpler, Morris would have us believe that she's just lying. Nowhere is it allowed that the woman may have just wanted a dog. Rewriting History, co-written by Morris's wife Eileen McGann, offers a pleasing blend of Washington (and some Little Rock) gossip along with its political strategizing and is more valuable as insider scoop than presidential road map. Fans of Hillary Clinton will find little to alter their view and those who oppose her will find plenty of talking points for all the years of future debates that Hillary Clinton will surely inspire. --John Moe ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Mrs. President?
I'm assuming that what Clinton wrote in 'Living History' is entirely contrary to what Morris wrote in 'Rewriting History'.So, I chose only to read this one and take into account that her version would be the exact opposite of what he wrote.I hope dearly that she's not elected in 2008 or any other year and (God help us is if she is) that she's completely through a hormone-driven emotional menopause if she is.Having said that, this book is written with so much animosity.I wish Morris had just stuck to reporting the facts with a little less melodrama.

5-0 out of 5 stars For anyone who thinks Hillary should be president...
For anyone who thinks Hillary should be our next president, I highly recommend reading this book. For anyone who thinks Hillary DOESN'T need to be president...you also need to read it! Dick Morris was an insider, he knows and writes the truth! Do you want to know the truth or do you choose to ignore it?

5-0 out of 5 stars Will she grow?
That is the question that Dick answers at the end of the book, and it is a good one.

Dick Morris knows about the political life of the Clinton's more than any man (or woman) alive, having been employed Bill's advisor for much of the past 25 years.He point by point goes through Hillary's history and assess both her assets and the things that sould give anyone to think twice before voting for her as President.

As evidence by prior "reviews", there are dye-in-the-wool Democrats who will go apoplectic any time they see someone say anything the slightest bit critical of a Democrat.However, if you truly look at this book, this is not a 100% "hack-job" by a partisan Republican.He heaps a considerable amount of criticism on Republicans in this book.However, Hillary has a history that is disturbing.Of course, any attempt at showing balance (either in the book world or cable news) is automatically attacked as right-wing.This is assuredly a sympton of decades of media dominance (but that is a topic addressed in other books.)

Anyone who is considering voting for her in 2008 (I will vote absentee and I will NOT vote for Hillary) MUST read this book first.If you don't and vote for her, all I can say is that if she wins, you may well come to regret it within four years. ... Read more

Isbn: 0060736682
Subjects:  1. 1993-2001    2. 2001-    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Clinton, Hillary Rodham    5. Conservatism    6. First Ladies    7. Government - Legislative Branch    8. Political    9. Political Process - General    10. Political Science    11. Politics and government    12. Politics/International Relations    13. U.S. Practical Politics    14. United States    15. Political Science / Practical Politics   


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