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Summary: Classic witch hunting
Comment: Toobin concludes that Paula Jones lied about being sexually harrassed, Ken Starr lied to the Justice
Department about his connections to the Jones case, and that Linda Tripp, Kathleen Willey, Lucianne
Goldberg, Gennifer Flowers, Michael Isikoff, and virtually all the rest of the President's
accusors and tormentors lied, schemed and manipulated.

Yet this book is primarily a moralistic
diatribe against Big Bad Bubba for how he tried to fight back. Like almost all the rest of his
media colleagues, Toobin's bottom line is that even if you've been falsely accused, ya gotta
confess all your sins.

Isn't this the classic ruse of witch hunters?

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Summary: A Decisive Step Forward
Comment: I've never much liked Clinton, and didn't vote for him in '96; but, as this book shows, his most
bitter enemies (Starr, Hyde) were far worse than he: indifferent to the needs of the country, driven
by largely irrational obsessions, and inept to the point of stupidity in devising their
strategies. (I should stress however, as Toobin does, that some of the President's team were also
pretty gross.) Toobin's book is riveting in its description of the entire mess, a typical
Washington imbroglio with little intrinsic sense. On the whole, Toobin manages to keep an admirable
balance; the suggestions to the contrary from some other of your reviewers are false and clearly
politically motivated. The deeper point that Toobin tries to push, namely that the impeachment
flap stands for a broader legalization of the political process, does not really work, in my
opinion; but the book is still successful in sustaining a very complex narration. I devoured it,
and would recommend it to anyone who, a year later, wants to get a good overview of the entire
arrair.

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Summary: it's all true.....and interesting
Comment: Jeffrey Toobin settles on the key phenomenon of the entire scandal. Virtually every good or bad
thing you can think of about any of the participants is true: Clinton was a popular President and a
lying, deeply troubled sexual predator, Lewinsky was an innocent...and a colossal tease who
pursued the President and was used by him, Ken Starr was a weak, obsessed, and equally troubled,
dishonest man who was determined to score points and did, Hillary enabled her husband's behavior
and was genuinely deceived by him, Paula Jones engaged in a consentual sexual encounter with the
President and was then seduced by right wing operatives, and on and on. The only person Toobin
does not present with a mitigating "good side" is Linda Tripp, for the obvious reasons, although he
gives her credit for collecting the crucial "evidence". I think this even-handedness is what makes
the reviewers on this page love or hate Toobin, who bashes everybody with well-documented
deliberation. It's good reporting, a lot of work, and unbiased, if unbiased can be defined as
making everybody look pretty bad.

Customer Rating:
Summary: nothing new....
Comment: If you are looking for something new in this story, this book is NOT it

Customer Rating:
Summary: Finally The Voice Of the People Is Heard
Comment: This fair and balanced book was very insightful. It was a pleasure to read a balanced assessment of
what most Americans feel about this subject. That is, what the Prez did was bad but what "the
Clinton-haters" did to him was worse. A book for historians to read.