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Summary: Disappointing!
Review: Not one of Bugliosi's best works, but a true representative sample of a man who does his homework and backs up everything he says with ample evidence. The man knows what he's talking about, and he knows what is happening to this country and the office of the Presidency with the ludicrous antics of the Independent Prosecutor.Understanding the concept of "balance of interests" of Paula Jones v. the National interest alone was worth the price of the book ... because it helped me to put my finger on why I have felt so violated by the process as a citizen of the United States. We have the right to a President who can focus on the work we elected him to do. If he found himself rather confused about the connection between sex and violence ... that's one of the major drawbacks of the country we live in, and the people he represents. Clinton is not the problem. He just makes it visible.
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Summary: Stop the insanity!
Review: Not one of Bugliosi's best works, but a true representative sample of a man who does his homework and backs up everything he says with ample evidence. The man knows what he's talking about, and he knows what is happening to this country and the office of the Presidency with the ludicrous antics of the Independent Prosecutor. Understanding the concept of "balance of interests" of Paula Jones v. the National interest alone was worth the price of the book ... because it helped me to put my finger on why I have felt so violated by the process as a citizen of the United States. We have the right to a President who can focus on the work we elected him to do. If he found himself rather confused about the connection between sex and violence ... that's one of the major drawbacks of the country we live in, and the people he represents. Clinton is not the problem. He just makes it visible.
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Summary: Poorly veiled partisan deceit
Review: Our country is in the current unfortunate state of social decay due to men like Vincent Bugliosi who blur and blunt the truth, then fail to see the causal behaviour creating the outcomes in this case of a man named Bill Clinton. No one, including the Supreme Court, suffers a liar well, and in this case the Supreme Court has the capability to bring to bear at least a small amount of justice by allowing the prosecution of the liar, though he is the President. Bugliosi's treatise is poorly-veiled partisan deceit. Many American people have turned their faces from the Presidency and Bill Clinton because of the previous behaviour of Mr. Clinton and his ongoing exploits in office. Clinton's actions are a dishonor and disgrace to our country and our people. He currently stands as one of the most disingenuous, female-exploiting politicians of the modern era. As a past prosecutor, how can Bugliosi remotely support the type activities in which Mr. Clinton engages? Jim Street.
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Summary: Easy, Vincent, easy!!!!!
Review: Since when did prosecuting Charles Manson make Vincent Bugliosi a constitutional law expert?
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Summary: Bugliosi is a national treasure!
Review: The country is fortunate in having in Vincent Bugliosi a man who has the skills and the energy to hold to account the essentially unaccountable justices of the Supreme Court for their inane decision weakening the office of the presidency. In the thoroughly detailed manner that he used to unveil the prosecutors' incompetence in the OJ case, he methodically assembles the legal precedents and other arguments to show how the Supreme Court completely failed us all in their decision to put one person's interest above 268 million of us in forcing our chief executive to attend to the distraction of a private litigation. His exposure of a supreme court suffused with arrogance and veering out of control is a crucial public service, as is the clear picture he paints of thoughtless sensation-obsessed editors at our leading newspapers. The book is short, highly readable, and a must read for all who may have, as I had until now, assumed naively that the Supreme Court is a special source of wisdom and a crucial foundation of our national strength.
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Summary: Elitist and Foolish Book...
Review: The only merit of this otherwise elitist and foolish book is that one can learn how *trial* lawyers can distort issues beyond all recognition ("above the law") and how they employ such tactics as grossly inappropriate analogies (Hitler for the Suprem Court), (weak) strawman counterarguments, non sequiturs (e.g. Soldier's and Sailor's Civil Relief Act of 1940 and the President's responsibilities), and so on, and how they can represent themselves as something they are not (neutral, non-partisan). One can also see that it is possible to expand a one-paragraph argument into a book --- although this is admittedly a lousy example.
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Summary: A very well written and harsh critique of the Supreme Court.
Review: The only problem with the book is that many people may be turned off by his opening chapters. He has a lot of opinions about everything and he seems intent on telling us all of them. But I will never hold the Supreme Court in the high regard I once did after reading this book. He clearly demonstrates how incompetence can reach the very highest levels of our judicial system.
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Summary: Vincent Bugliosi Is Not Sane
Review: This book starts out giving Bugliosi's rather skewed view of the world, in which the problems of our society can evidently be traced to the fact that naughty girls where short skirts. Then he promptly proves how smart he is by telling us how right he was in his assessment of the OJ Simpson case. Given that he is obviously an unbiased source, how can one doubt? Of course, one might wonder what this has to do with the Supreme Courts decision in the Paula Jones case, and the answer is, of course, absolutely nothing. Bugliosi, truth be told, has no interest in the issue at hand, he is just excited about tooting his own horn and making himself seem important. Really, his whole argument in the Clinton matter is simply this, he is brilliant and everyone else is an idiot and we should feel blessed that he deigned to make any argument beyond this at all, given that he so much smarter than everyone else. I did not pick up this book expecting an unbiased discussion of the issues surrounding the Supreme Court's decision to let the Paula Jones case move forward, but I did expect it to be reasonable. It certainly is not. Bugliosi's argument (in as much as it exists at all beyond the 'I'm so smart' posturing) despite his denials is; The President Is Above The Law, no more and no less. He never seems to acknowledge that even if the Presidency is as important as he asserts (and it certainly is not clear that it need be) it does not automatically follow that the President himself is irreplaceable. What would have happened if Clinton had handed the reigns of government to Gore (who after all, was duly elected along with Bubba) to concentrate on the Paula Jones case? Would the World have been turned on its head? It seems unlikely, considering the similarities of their outlook. Worse than the weakness of his arguments, of course, is his colossal arrogance, evidently all the justices of the Supreme Court are idiots, as is anyone else who disagrees with his assessment of the issues. Such dismissive arrogance makes the book insulting and frankly unreadable. Better he just published a book that said simply, I AM RIGHT and YOU ARE AN IDIOT, it would be more honest, and frankly more interesting.
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Summary: Scathing Analysis of an Erroneous Supreme Court Decision
Review: This is the first book Bugliosi has written that I did not enjoy reading. His basic thesis is sound and would have been fine for a magazine article, but he goes way off the subject and rambles incessantly. His ego has reached immense proprtions; he can't stop talking about how brilliant he is and how stupid everyone else is. There are too many ad hominem attacks and irrelevant analogies that have nothing to do with the book's main subject ( I still don't understand what the Florida Marlins, Kevin Garnett, and Ivan Lendl have to do with the book's critique of the Court).
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Summary: A hundred unnecessary pages
Review: This is the first book Bugliosi has written that I did not enjoy reading. His basic thesis is sound and would have been fine for a magazine article, but he goes way off the subject and rambles incessantly. His ego has reached immense proprtions; he can't stop talking about how brilliant he is and how stupid everyone else is. There are too many ad hominem attacks and irrelevant analogies that have nothing to do with the book's main subject ( I still don't understand what the Florida Marlins, Kevin Garnett, and Ivan Lendl have to do with the book's critique of the Court).
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