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Summary: Objective Reporting Offends Clinton-Lovers
Review: I am, as the author describes, a Clinton hater. I am amazed and embarrassed that 60% or more of the people support such an obvious manipulator, liar and phoney, someone who uses people for his own selfish ends and then discards them like so much toilet paper. Nevertheless, I recognize that some of Clinton's enemies are are also despicable, as this book points out. It is a well written, objective piece that provides real insight into the reporting profession, as well as its subject matter. It's almost like reading a good suspense novel. What I find interesting, however, is that the people who trashed the book and author are all Clinton lovers, the only apparent reason being that the author reached some inescapable conclusions about their hero's ethics and character, or lack thereof. They unjustifiably assume Isikoff must have an anti-Clinton bias, when he does nothing more than reach reasonable conclusions from objective facts, as any good reporter does. The fact is that this book has unflattering things to say about all sides of this fiasco. Unlike the Clinton lovers, this Clinton hater doesn't try to kill the messenger just because he doesn't like some of the facts.
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Summary: Angered at the intentional deception of the American people.
Review: The values that our founding fathers expected from our Commander in Chief are no where to be found in Clinton or his administration. Growing up I learned in school statements of the moral character made by our President's to include George Washington's "I can not tell a lie" to Harry Truman's "The buck stops here." Our President now looks the citizens directly in the eye and lies to them without any hesitation or accountability. And what is more frustrating is that the American people accept it. Michael Isikoff does an excellant job of detailing these lies and the people who perpetuated them.
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Summary: Objective, unexpurgated account of the truth
Review: Michael Isikoff has provided a truly objective and candid expose of the behind the scenes actions and motivations of those involved in the Clinton scandals. His book should be required reading for anyone interested in the back-room machinations of our current political regime and its detractors. More importantly, it should give us pause about the power the executive office yields and the extent that those who are intent to keep the power to themselves, will go to protect that power.
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Summary: Valuable Addition to the "Clinton Is a Bad Man" library.
Review: Micheal Isikoff has finally put a face on Newsweek journalism, and it is the face of a smug, nerdy hyperactive gossip mongerer who seems better suited to do investigative work for the National Enquirer. Isikoff's endless appearances on the CNBC, MSNBC and CNN talk-fests over the last year have given this busybody the opportunity to mentally masturbate in front of the whole world. In his "Uncovering Clinton...", Isikoff once again proves that, in this day and age, mediocrity and narcissism are alive and well in American journalism and are even rewarded with generous publishing contracts. Isikoff is truly an inspiration for budding journalists who have short attention spans with respect to relevent world events but an insatiable, almost psychotic, interest in the prurient aspects of the sex lives of public people. Keep up the good work, Michael.
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Summary: Cuts through all the liberal lies and spin
Review: Since the media has shut us off from the truth about our Commander-in-Heat and his liberal lap dogs, it takes books like Uncovering Clinton and Boy Clinton to enlighten us about the embarrassment in our White House. Liberals are going to hate it. But than again, liberals also hate the truth.
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Summary: A great book that hits all sides.
Review: This is a great book that hits both sides of the Clinton sex scandal. Isikoff was the major player in breaking this story and takes it from the very beginning with the first Paula Jones press conference. He details many aspects of Clinton's scandalous deviancy, but also puts the spotlights on the manipulations of Linda Tripp and Lucianne Goldberg, who manipulated each other and Monica Lewinsky.Isikoff untangles the complex weave woven by all the players in this story. He also outs Ann Coulter and the role she played in the scandal. This is the best book on the scandal from the man who was there at the very beginning. Neither from the left or the right, this books comes with the unflattering truth from both sides.
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Summary: Where are Woodward and Bernstein when you need them?
Review: not surprised this supposed page-turner is languishing on bookstore shelves. who really wants to read another inside-the-beltway account of events most of thought were trivial to begin with?
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Summary: Linda Tripp is much worse than we knew.
Review: I did not think I could read another word about the scandal but this book is a page turner. There are not too many surprises about Clinton, but the self-serving antics of Linda Tripp and Lucianne Goldberg are shocking and perhaps even evil.
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Summary: MONICA, GEORGE AND MICHAEL - THEY CAN'T ALL BE WRONG!
Review: After a reluctant saturation with Clinton through reading "The Starr Report," "Monica's Story", and then George Stephanopolous', "All Too Human," I was even more hesitant to pick up another book on the White House or politcs. Nonetheless, I came across "Uncovering..." and somehow found I still needed to learn more about the scandals of the Clinton Presidency and to understand the man who serves as our President better... so I bought Michael Isikoff's book. Isikoff did an excellent job of clearly providing a fascinating backdrop to the last few years of the Clinton administration and life as we were forced to live it through the media across America. "Uncovering Clinton" provides a context better even than the excellent, "All Too Human," since George was on the 'inside' for some of the time and then completely 'out of the loop' when no longer of use to the Clinton's. Michael Isikoff is able to provide another point of view, that of "outsider," a reporter close to the various stories of Clinton's misdeeds throughout the entire "show's" run. What is clear, and candidly admitted by Isikoff himself, is how vulnerable even the press can be in the various sneaky efforts, from every corner of the country, at being targets for manipulation. Michael was made carefully cultivated and increasingly made 'privy' to a lot of detail by Lucianne Goldberg and Linda Tripp -- with now extremely apparent self-interest. In addition, through a lot information directed towad Isikoff by "undisclosed sources" -- meaning officially for the record, but with the guarantee to the source that their identity would not be known public (again with an array of agenda to push,) he was able to gain a fairly objective sense of truth, outright lies, gross exaggerations, political slander, and just plain garbage. As a result of fairly careful and objectively selective evaluation, Michael was able to understand the crux of the real story, the real truth about the 'Clinton saga.' Isikoff was essentially a very close witness to the incidious and despicable plans and strategies aimed at both "un-doing" Bill Clinton, as well as those directed toward his protection.. As a reporter for the highly regarded "Newsweek," and previously for The Washington Post, Michael Isikoff is no virgin to Washington highjinks. Yet, he clearly endeavors to take the high road of maintaining journalistic integrity in the midst of deceitful and calculating people. I applaud him for this and hope that he never loses this standard of high expectation and objectivity. Nonetheless, there were clear attempts coming from every end of the spectrum of Clinton fans and foes to feed him what they wanted to see in print. It has never been more clear to me how significant it is for the printed word to be regarded as fact and truth. Everyone hoped Isikoff would "bite" and get their version "out" -- the way they wanted it viewed. Fortunately, Michael is a careful reporter and his editors, even more careful; they perhaps suspiciously so. I believe that the editors themselves were compliciters in allowing other media venues to mis-shape the Clinton story by repeated refusal to run Isikoff's work in advance of others. The fact that the net-based DRUDGE REPORT caused them to spring -- finally! -- into publication mode is terribly sad. I believe they overlooked the fact that they had an extremely capable and objective reporter working for them, and other than to check out any legal issues and other protective matters for the paper, they themselves continually delayed and postponed the reportage of some of the best and most objective investigation that was going on -- by one of their own. I came away from this story realizing that once more -- perhaps even more vividly so -- the contempt I have for the likes of Kenneth Starr, Luicianne Goldberg and Linda Tripp. No, I don't think too highly of the President's behavior; I'm not bowled over by the 'Monica Lewinsky As Used, Innocent Pawn'yarn, yet the true scandal in the history of the Clinton White House over the last two years was the disgusting behavior of the likes of the three individuals mentioned, and their 'backers' and 'boosters.' The whole thing should make Americans fearful of the power we invest in 'special interest groups,' do-good 'legal foundations' and the politics of Washington, D.C. in general. Never should another Special Prosceutor be invested with the power and limitless resources which were made available to Kenneth Starr. Starr is clearly a clinically obsessive meglomaniac at work -- with an agenda! Despite his personal behavior, I don't know how Bill Clinton has done as well as he has serving as President of this country under the microscope of a Kenneth Starr all these years and people with the motives not unlike those of organized crime's 'hit men,' circulating throughout the orbit of the White House. A carefully detailed timeline of the whole story as it became known -- as distinct from what shaped it, and how and when it was intensively reported from every angle for at least fourteen intensive months when "it was the only news." An excellent piece on these last few years covering the White House when every American was continuously bombarded with every thought, word, attribution, analysis and subterfuge known to man. It well compliments the works by Stephanopolous and Morton (Monica's Story;) all worthwhile reads.
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Summary: More Republican right - wing propraganda
Review: This is just another Rush Limbaugh type right-wing attack on anything that is not right wing or religious right...don't waste your money
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