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Summary: Fawning apologist trash for the Clinton Criminal Enterprise
Comment: Toobin, the admitted "mouthpiece" of Hillary, (from whom he got the "secret" court [and other]
documents -- according to his appearance with Imus) has produced something thats greatest utility
would be in replacing the old Sears & Roebuck catalogue in any remaining outhouses across the
nation. Don't waste your time, money or effort -- utterly worthless.

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Summary: school for scandal
Comment: A "reader from Chicago" says below that he/she wishes there was a way for Amazon to weed out those
reviewers who have actually read this book from those who haven't but who dislike Clinton and have
chosen this forum as a place to vent their hatred. After reading Toobin's book, I'd say it's
obvious that anyone who thinks Toobin is an apologist for Clinton or that the White House/DNC had
something to do with the writing of this book has most definitely NOT read it. This book doesn't
whitewash Clinton or make excuses for him nor does it try to absolve him; far from it, in fact,
Clinton comes off looking really wretched. The thing is, the GOP leaders who unleashed the
incompetent Starr and $60 million on Clinton make him look positively angelic in comparison. The
real importance of this book, however, does not lie in it's portrayal of Clinton as a philander
who quibbled over verbs much to his and the country's shame but in it's telling of how a
well-financed group of GOP fanatics deliberately attempted to countermand the will of the American
people.

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Summary: Solid Book, but not as good as his others
Comment: I felt a little disappointed in Toobin, the writer, after having read this. The text seemed a bit
hurried in places, the research wasn't up to his usual standard, and even though Toobin is careful
to state several times that Clinton's behavior was shameless, his criticism of Republicans does
seem to go over the top. At times the tone almost becomes smarmy when Republicans are discussed.
Toobin's own politics are no mystery after finishing the book.

That said, it is a good read, and
provides some new insight to the case. It's not nearly good as his earlier book, on the OJ
Simpson trial, titled "The Run of His Life", but I'm sure he was under more of a deadline for this
one. Check out the paperback edition when it becomes available.

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Summary: Placing a Conspiracy in Context
Comment: Unlike many authors, for whom the Clinton scandals have merely provided an opportunity for
self-righteous moralizing, tabloid gossip, or both, Toobin sees those events in historical,
political context, as the culmination of twenty years of effort on the part of reformers to hijack
the legal system in the service of social change. He depicts Bill Clinton's impeachment as
Watergate replayed as farce, in which, employing the very same laws and institutions that had been
championed by liberals in the name of social reform, a far right that had been stymied by the
judicially-created reforms of the civil rights and women's movements, and defeated by the courts
during Nixon's impeachment, struck back against baby-boomer Clinton and his administration by means
of a sex scandal.

Toobin sets forth his theory through media reports, personal interviews and
the legislative record, arguing factually and persuasively for a "vast conspiracy" far vaster and,
at the same time, less consensual, than that envisioned by Hillay Clinton, an unwitting
collaboration of right and left that ultimately discredited both, while diminishing the American
people's respect for all three sectors of government. He misses none of his story's ironies,
depicting the ineptness of the special prosecutor-who-was-not-a-prosecutor, the confusion and
outrage of liberal Democrats as the very same tools that they had employed in the interest of
social justice were coopted by the right, and the the almost Shakespearian psychodrama of flawed
character, bad motives and bad luck that transformed a few tacky back-room sexual encounters into a
national political crisis.

A former federal prosecutor, Toobin paints a damning picture of the
ineptitude of the independent counsel's office, where confusion and inexperience reigned, while not
sparing either the President or his advisors for their bad judgment. While it may make some people
angry, this book is worth reading, and worth thinking about.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Biased But Good
Comment: Before I read this book, I thought the president should have resigned. After I read this book I
still thought the president should have resigned. However, the author doesn't share that view. In
some ways he is an apologist for the Clintons and that is rather crudely evident. However, I had
no idea how unsavory were the forces aligned against him. Toobin gives us a view into a very
unsavory and I think immoral group of characters who in some ways were every bit as wrong and
immoral as Clinton. Even though I found myself cringing at times with his defense of the president
(and don't doubt it, he defends him) I was cringing at those points in the book which did show
that a rag-tag bunch of shady characters was trying to overtrow an election through the judicial
process. That is evident from some of the insider-perspectives Toobin gives his readers. It's scary
to think that one day, a group like this will succeed against a president I really like.