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Summary: Sleazy title, good book...
Review: ...No matter what you think of the Clintons, this is not a hack job. The writing is very balanced, if a little confusing during the Whitewater phase, and Hillary comes off as someone with flaws- her main one being her husband. Can't get enough of those Clintons!
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Summary: Sleazy title, good book...
Review: ...No matter what you think of the Clintons, this is not a hack job. The writing is very balanced, if a little confusing during the Whitewater phase, and Hillary comes off as someone with flaws- her main one being her husband. Can't get enough of those Clintons!
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Summary: Informative book and well worth reading
Review: A wild story, full of interesting "insider" stories and gossip about the Clintons and their circle. In short: Hillary -- morally correct but misunderstood; Bill -- EVIL. One begs the question: what was David Brock's real agenda for this book? His earlier scathing attacks on All That Is Clinton makes one question wonder from where this burst of pro-Hillaryism comes.
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Summary: The stories... the gossip...
Review: A wild story, full of interesting "insider" stories and gossip about the Clintons and their circle. In short: Hillary -- morally correct but misunderstood; Bill -- EVIL. One begs the question: what was David Brock's real agenda for this book? His earlier scathing attacks on All That Is Clinton makes one question wonder from where this burst of pro-Hillaryism comes.
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Summary: Solid and Substantive
Review: Given all of the bios out on Hillary Clinton including Gail Sheehy's new book, this is by far the best written and researched. It gives an interesting account of the compromises Hillary has had to make in her quest to help herself and her gifted, charismatic and deeply flawed husband reach the pinnacle of power.
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Summary: Even-handed????
Review: I disagree with the other reviews of this book. It is even-handed only if you consider damning with faint praise to be even-handedness. Brock's thesis is that while Bill Clinton is a sleaze bag; Hillary is a sincere committed radical--sort of a Emma Goldman with a law degree. While he does at times acknowledge that a double standard has been applied to the Clintons, as compared for example to the Bushes, he repeatedly denigrates Hillary by resorting to guilt by association. He trots out every associate she has ever had who has been involved in any liberal or left-wing cause and gives you their background in lurid detail. According to Brock, Hillary's intellectual development stopped in college or law school. I await his new book to see whether he really is ready to write an even-handed appraisal of the current political scene. In this book, he assumes that the liberals are naive or out to destroy basic American values. For example, he assumes that there wasn't merit at all to the Vietnam war protests or that anyone could actually believe that the war was both immoral and not in the interests of the United States of America.--Arthur Amchan
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Summary: Even-handed????
Review: I disagree with the other reviews of this book. It is even-handed only if you consider damning with faint praise to be even-handedness. Brock's thesis is that while Bill Clinton is a sleaze bag; Hillary is a sincere committed radical--sort of a Emma Goldman with a law degree. While he does at times acknowledge that a double standard has been applied to the Clintons, as compared for example to the Bushes, he repeatedly denigrates Hillary by resorting to guilt by association. He trots out every associate she has ever had who has been involved in any liberal or left-wing cause and gives you their background in lurid detail. According to Brock, Hillary's intellectual development stopped in college or law school. I await his new book to see whether he really is ready to write an even-handed appraisal of the current political scene. In this book, he assumes that the liberals are naive or out to destroy basic American values. For example, he assumes that there wasn't merit at all to the Vietnam war protests or that anyone could actually believe that the war was both immoral and not in the interests of the United States of America.--Arthur Amchan
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Summary: Informative book and well worth reading
Review: I picked up this book to gain further insight on the Clinton's. I have read what I consider the most reliable and informative book on the "Boy Wonder" by David Maraniss (First in his Class), and I wanted to learn more about Hillary as she prepares to run for the Senate. I found this book to be a fairly balanced and compelling book. Brock portrays Hillary as a intelligent, committed woman who made apparently bad choice to marry the Devil in Ms. Jones, and follow him from Yale to Arkansas, from triumph to tragedy. Brock portrays a woman who made a Faustian bargain in marrying Clinton and hasmany problems because of it. As he says, Brock believes that Hillary and Bill are some sort of co-dependents. I had this feeling after seeing how radiant she was after the accusations of Lewinsky started to arise two years ago. Hillary Clinton comes across as a very sad woman who has chosen to look the other way during numerous transgrssions by her husband, both sexual and legal. To me I felt she is the perfect anti-feminist because she denied her own obvious gifts and subverted her own desires to get her husband elected President. Clinton himself comes across as a real doofus(just look at the wonderful pictures(the first one of Hillary is enough to make anyone regret living through the Sixties-YIKES! ). she comes across as a lonely woman, who is committed to her causes because of a belief in them, and because it must take her away from an obviously unhappy married life. This book made me feel a real human affinity for Hillary. I don't agree with her politics, but I still think she is an interesting woman. The President comes off like a real sleaze, and he seems to make her one as well by both association, conspiracy, and her own behavior. Ultimately, she reminds me of those people in life who see life through their own granny glasses, and can't stand to have anyone disgree with them. A worthwhile book!
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Summary: Why does Brock hate Hillary?
Review: I read this book when it was first issued. The more time passes, the less impressed I am by the work. At the timethe book was issued, I noted what must have been a very painful episode in the subject's life, at least as Brock reports it. According to Daivd Brock, for her entire life, Hillary Rodham's mother urged her daughter to excell at academics. Yet when Hillary received the singular honor of giving the commencement address at her college, an event that brought her national attention at a young age, Brock reports that Hillary's mother was not in attendence. That struck me as what must have been a particularly bittersweet moment in the young Ms. Rodham's life. To work so hard for approval and then receive none. Several years later, in a biography that received cooperation from the First Lady, Gail Sheehy reported that it was Hugh Rodham, Hillary's beloved father, who had skipped her famous commencement address in lieu of other pressing activities. Mistaking the subject's mother for the subject's father strikes me as a rather serious factual error for a biographer.
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Summary: The Vast Credibility Conspiracy
Review: I read this book when it was first issued. The more time passes, the less impressed I am by the work. At the timethe book was issued, I noted what must have been a very painful episode in the subject's life, at least as Brock reports it. According to Daivd Brock, for her entire life, Hillary Rodham's mother urged her daughter to excell at academics. Yet when Hillary received the singular honor of giving the commencement address at her college, an event that brought her national attention at a young age, Brock reports that Hillary's mother was not in attendence. That struck me as what must have been a particularly bittersweet moment in the young Ms. Rodham's life. To work so hard for approval and then receive none. Several years later, in a biography that received cooperation from the First Lady, Gail Sheehy reported that it was Hugh Rodham, Hillary's beloved father, who had skipped her famous commencement address in lieu of other pressing activities. Mistaking the subject's mother for the subject's father strikes me as a rather serious factual error for a biographer.
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