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Summary: Highly recommended for the thoughtfully political
Review: Mr. Isikoff has produced one of the finest books ever that can be used to whack students over the head as they sit stiffly and try to meditate in Zen monasteries. But will this book knock any sense or enlightenment into their noggins? Hardly. Dear reader, you've had a year of this utter rubbish. However, if you are masochistic and if you really liked that annoyingly nasal whine of Mr. Isikoff's on countless talking head programs, you will find this book as exciting as any elementary text on particle physics (however, there aren't as many differential equations to suffer through in this book). If you think you'd enjoy the company of Linda Tripp and Paul Jones at your next dinner party, with Mike Isikoff serving Martha Stewart hors d'oeuvres on a little platter with toothpicks, then by all means indulge yourself. But if you gotten beyond the Sunday comics, you might find this book as illuminating as one of the tricks Dennis the Menace plays on Mr. Wilson. And, if it's Zen you are into, you'll enjoy cracking your Zen master on his nut when he isn't looking.Good bibliography, though the print is too small to read without a scanning electron microscope.
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Summary: The drivel continues
Review: Mr. Isikoff and his Republican "sources" (read: puppet masters)make me sick. This man, manipulated by Goldberg, Tripp, Drudge, et al thrust the United States into a completely unecessary, bogus constitutional crisis. Read this boring, profit-motivated book only if you are a right wing nut. Any comparison to the magnificent ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN is pure hyperbole and wishful thinking.
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Summary: Mao could not have said it better
Review: Chairman Mao himself is probably jumping up and down in his grave over this book. Not since Mao's Little Red Book has a book so captured... the times. And those great recipes for hors d'oeurves in the middle of the book. Who knew Paula Jones could cook so well? Martha Stewart's asparagus stalks don't stand up to Paula's. And you know, I betcha that Michael Isikoff is making a whole lot of bread off of this book (have you caught the guy on MSNBC? What a weazle!) and You, yes You, are handing it over to him. For this? What do you think this is, a tract by Montaigne? Or Thoreau? Or H. Vincent Macgruder? Get real, but don't get this book. Instead, load up on opiates and count the stars in the milky way: it'll help you understand the whole Monica story just a little bit better.
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Summary: excellent work
Review: Is Amazon willing to accept a review from a momentarily weak reader who obtained this book from the library,rather than from Amazon? If so,my compliments & promise never to do it again! Being a news junkie and thoroughlyl informed re the entire Clinton scandal,I anticipated virtual boredom prior to reading "uncovering Clinton,but couldn't ignore its publication. It's a swift read..well organized and insightful..much new information..and Mike Isikoff succeeds completely in impressing the reader with his honestly and objectivity.The reader can almost visualize the difficulty of this reporters' efforts to be fair and impartial.An impressive book.EA
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Summary: Long on Scandal, Short on Political Process
Review: Is Clinton the victim of a right-wing conspiracy, or the victim of his own twisted morality? Sadly, we find out that both theories are, for the most part, true. As a book that relates the reporter's process of uncovering the story, it's a pretty good read. But Isikoff's interest only goes as far as uncovering the facts of the Lewinsky case, as far as the Paula Jones deposition. The politics of the impeachmenet process are covered as an afterthought. This book is a good beginning, but it is far from complete. More on Starr and the impeachment process would have added a lot. I guess he had a deadline to meet...
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Summary: Great read, necessary for anyone who read Monica' Story
Review: Reading in conjunction with Monica's Story and All Too Human gives a rounded picture of a despicable mess. Mr. Isikoff ties up many loose ends and gives great isight into the media.
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Summary: A remarkably gripping read, and a very important story
Review: It will be immediately evident to anyone who reads this book that some of the reviewers below didn't even pick this book up, as they seem to be responding to some concept of what they think it (or he--the author) represent, rather than the book itself--which is one of the most gripping narratives I've read in years, and the fact that it paints the most telling portrait of our president yet, and is filled with never-before-disclosed stories, and is easily the most important book about both the powers and the processes behind the scenes in the press, are all icing on the cake for readers. Isikoff comes off as more honest (and insightful) than any of the multitude of players caught up in the whirlwind of scandals that have come to plague the Clinton presidency, and his book is by far the most important--and most entertaining--to come out of those scandals.
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Summary: It's about time!
Review: It's about time someone wrote a book telling the country what this is really all about. It has nothing to do with sex and everything to do with a man bent on power and doing whatever he needs to to preserve it. It's about a man who wants it all-even if others get hurt in the process (namely his wife, daughter--and the nation)--and doesn't give a hoot about the consequences. A well-written tale; if only it were fiction. But as this well documented book makes perfectly clear--it's not.
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Summary: excellent recital of a political investigation
Review: Isikoff did a great service to the nation for his dogged research and reporting in the matter of the President's reckless sexual liaisons and his pattern of lying about those affairs. His book is an extraordinary telling of the story behind the story. Isikoff paints no pretty pictures of himself or others, and shows us one side of how Washington really works.
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Summary: The book is suspect when you see long reviews from publisher
Review: I find it self serving when an inner circle of columnists, writers and reporters have to write online reviews promoting a book? If the book is so good why promote it so much? This is indicative of what I read. The book has nothing from something already reported by far baetter qualified writers and reporters. Read it if you have absoluely nothing to do, and then consider not reading it at all, you will get the message if you do not take my advice.
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