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Customer Rating:
Summary: Utter tripe; all the veracity of Mein Kampf
Comment: Toobin has long been a Clinton cheerleader and an extremely dubious "legal scholar" on Good Morning
America. With this book he hits new lows.

Even I, who tried to avoid as much of the Clinton
situation as I could, spotted a half dozen or more outright falsehoods in his book as well as
conclusion after conclusion which was supported by neither fact nor logic.

This is a true work of
utter, utter nonsense which only the most ardent (and close minded) Clinton supporter could
actually believe. The "most powerful man in the world" is a victim. Give me a break.

Toobin's
words are routinely lousy on GMA and his words in this book are no better - probably worse.

The
only reason I give this book one star is that I couldn't give it fewer.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Understanding Politics of Personal Destruction
Comment: Jeff Toobin does a masterful job in exposing the money, motives, political gamesmaship in the
impeachment fiasco. Toobin uses his access to see a glimpse into the oxymoron Independent Counsel's
office.

I would suggest a companion reader to this book, which goes back to the Arkansas and
neoconservative roots of the scandal mongering. The book is The Hunting of the President, by Joe
Conason and Gene Lyons.

Customer Rating:
Summary: A Vast Conspiracy of Loonies
Comment: Some of Toobin's details were new to me, but, like anyone who has read Gene Lyons's fine Fools for
Scandal, I wasn't the least bit surprised at the broad outlines of the story, nor at two themes that
of Clinton's enemies and the enthusiasm with which most of the major media players (NY Times,
Washington Post, major networks, etc.) jumped into bed --so to speak -- with said loonies. The
loonies are so cross-eyed with rage at the failure of their attempt to overturn two presidential
elections that they can't even see how the "liberal" (HA!) media did a lot of their dirty work.
(Check some of the negative reviews here for more evidence of this peculiar psychosis.) Toobin does
a fine job of elucidating previously obscure or confusing events and placing them in a context where
they finally make sense. The narrative line is clear; the tone is even-handed and objective; the
supporting details are more than ample; and the analysis is cogent and persuasive. This is a
wonderful antidote to the lunacy we had to suffer for that "annus horribilis."

Customer Rating:
Summary: Making Sense of the Starr Chamber
Comment: Jeffery Toobin's unravelling of the twisted and sordid mess that characterized the investigation of
Office of Independent Counsel's is nothing short of masterful. It is certainly more balanced and
factual than Isikoff's account and not blatantly partisan as Carville's rantings. Independent of
one's opinion of the Clinton Whitehouse, this book is an excellent read, clearly organized, and
bursting with information.

Customer Rating:
Summary: This book is the crack in the ice toward truth
Comment: Although Toobin hedges his bets with the Washington media by, to some extent, defending their view
that Clinton is still the morally lacking scoudrel, Toobin comes the closest yet to describing the
concerted effort by Clinton's enemies to undo the elections of '92 and '96. He hits on points
that the mainstream media consciously avoided, the culprits they ignored, the Beltway media's
blindness about the pulse and beliefs of the rest of the country, and their almost homophobic quest
to bring down the Clintons because 'they don't belong in the Washington establisment.'

A book
that looks even further into the past seven years of scandal/impeachment mania in Washington, and
is not written by inside-the-beltway reporters, is, "The Hunting of the President," by Gene Lyons
and Joe Conason, published and recently released by St. Martins and available on Amazon. This book
will tell you the whole truth, unless you are an avowed Clinton hater and beyond seeing where truth
and rumor separate. If you want to come close to learning the TRUTH of the past seven years, read
these books.