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Summary: "The Case" Wouldn't Pass as a College Research Paper
Review: Instead of building a case against the First Lady in "The Case Against Hillary Clinton," Noonan provides a stale rehashing of well-known information. The author make general claims about Mrs. Clinton, such as "[h]er boots are made for walking, and they'll walk all over you," without providing specifics about Mrs. Clinton's merits. Noonan fails to convince the reader that she knows more about Hillary Clinton than Americans who follow the evening news. While there is much to criticize about the Clintons, Noonan does a shoddy job in terms of providing useful information for thoughtful readers. Another point of frustration for thoughtful readers who might venture to read "The Case" is what passes for "evidence" in this book. One notable example is Noonan's claim that the Clinton's both suffer from clinical narcissism. Using information supplied by an former friend of the Clintons who cites a medical text, Noonan writes ". . . this clinical description, coming from a thoughtful associated of many years, seemed both believable and somewhat chilling." Noonan's assessment, based on information from a layperson on the subject of mental health, is representative of what passes as "fact" in "The Case Against Hillary Clinton." Several thoughtful books critical of Hillary Clinton have come out in the past year, and Noonan frequently pulls information from these texts. This "borrowing," dedicating an entire chapter to a hypothetical scenario of Mrs. Clinton "being truly serious, truly earnest. . .", and the absence of "new" information suggests that the research for "The Case" was minimal. This book is not Noonan's best, and is not a suggested read. If this book were a college essay, it would fail for its lack of focus, failing to substantiate claims with even the most minimal evidence, and a stark absence of commas in appropriate places. Voters in New York would be better served by following the news and drawing their own conclusions about Hillary Clinton's merits.
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Summary: Not A Non-Fiction Book
Review: The most notable thing about this book is that it is a mix of fantasy (hallucinations?) and very shallow looks at stories that are already widely known. The story of the health care task force is related here but only in vague terms as in a student doing a current events assignment for class. However, the intro is a doozy as it is all fantasy. This could be considered a (lame) device to get the reader's attention if it wasn't for Chapter Five. This is made up as well although the author drags you through pages of made up quotes from Hillary before confessing at the end. If true, this would have been the only part of the book containing new information. As it stands it is only revealing of the author's mentality. The author yearns for Ronald Reagan of old...
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Summary: Where Hilary is Coming From, and Where she Wants to Go.
Review: I couldn't put it down. This book is the book to read about the Clintions and their Scandals. This book explains the "weird psychic energy" which empowers the Clintons and explains their behavior.
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Summary: It's Chapter 8!
Review: Chapter 8 is worth the price of the book! Peggy Noonan's prose flow easy over the mind. She's got a wonderful way with words, making her work, no matter the subject, a joy to read. But along with some fanciful dreaming and insight, there is a well thought out political point of view worth considering in The Case Against... .
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Summary: A masterful summation
Review: There is no "hate" in this book. What there is, is a cool and skillful summation of the activities of Team Clinton, their methodology, their use of friends and sycophants, their willingness to change their "story" until it takes and much, much more. I am sure that Clinton supporters "hate" to see such a well done piece in print and being popularly received. As the sun sets on the administration of Wm. Clinton, Peggy Noonan's summation of it's shortcomings, it's misdeeds and indeed, it's corruption cuts through the talk of legacy and spin and lays the whole sad experience out in the sun like the rotting fish it is. You have no doubt surmised that I am not an admirer of this president or his wife and you may believe that my enthusiasim for this book is motivated by this. What has provoked my enthusiasim is the compelling case that Ms. Noonan makes without insulting our intelligence or torturing the facts. I invite you to read it and be the judge.
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Summary: Noonan's voice is lovely, Reaganesque.
Review: Noonan's beautiful, experienced voice makes this book a sharp but lush synopsis of Hillary's career, or lack thereof. (She also has a lovely audio voice. "What I Saw at the Revolution" on tape is tops). These 180 pages are perfect for a first time examination of Hillary's issues (or lack thereof) or as a refresher. Noonan goes way beyond typical "who, what, where," books on the Clintons that read like a series of 2-D newspaper articles by mixing in some creative fiction and a dream sequence The book's voice is simple but poetic and concerned. Like Reagan's speeches, maybe? National Review wrote that the voice of Reagan eerily calls from the pages of this book. This seems true at times and this is a credit to Noonan's past work as speechwriter. Still, I think at times she projects Reagan onto Hillary. She focuses a lot on Hillary as image crafter, as photo opportunist, as contrasting issue stands with words and pictures that say something else. Sound familiar? Noonan writes that "Reagan used words to cut through the fog" where Hillary adds to it. I think Hillary! has a lot more in common with Reagan than Noonan might think. This is a great book about Hillary! but perhaps it is also about Reagan and the current political era he helped shape.
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Summary: A Thoughtful Book On Hillary But Read Into It As Well!
Review: I amazed by the public and some reviews on Hillary and the author. It seems if you loved the Reagans' you hate the Clintons' and if you love the Clintons' you hate the Reagans'. Now this book does not depict Hillary as an evil person, it explains why some people have come to doubt her. On the other hand, people seeking power of all kind often lose themselves in the process, including Alexander The Great and Alexander Hamilton and no women is immune from such vanity. It is because prowling for power in a Democratic Society sometimes makes good people to make mistakes. Hillary has been a good mother, loyal wife and an able professional lawyer. She had every right to promote her ideas, offer counsel and advice to her husband and defend him on her own terms. Did she go to far and cross the line of decency or even the Rule of Law, well that has yet to be determined. Therefore, read the book, gather more insight and while we await the investigation and election outcome, please let Hillary win or lose on her own words, agenda or platform. It must be remembered, that Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford hated each other in 1974, now they are best of friends. President Truman destroyed papers on Eisenhower's affair even when Eisenhower refused to meet with him. Sometimes in the heat of political battle we often fall victim to judgments that are formed by rumors and emotions. This book is not filled with hate towards Hillary and its pity may be misplaced too. However, like Carter and Ford, I think the same will happen one day to Hillary and Peggy becoming the best of friends. Both are accomplished women regardless of what any critics say. The book is worth reading and will change your views one way or another about both women.
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Summary: Concise, exact, well written,easy to read,easy to understand
Review: Ms.Noonan writes beautifully. Like or dislike the Clintons, it's a good read. My favorite part is the comparison Ms. Noonan uses between Hillary Clinton and a friend Ms. Noonan says is unsure if she will vote for Hillary. It is done so well and really shows the drastic difference between the two. Hillary, using the poitical stump piece that she was just like you, the people of New York, when she was growing up. Not so, a middle-class intellectual raised with privileges that most did not have. She's an Ivy Leaguer. She was given opportunites because her husband was attorney general and governor of Arkansas. She's lived in public housing most of her life. She's never worked a job to pay for college. She never got the kids off to school in the morning then taken a few college courses to earn a degree and then work a part-time job to help her husband pay the mortgage and then get the kids off the bus and make supper and then help them with their homework before she does her own and then puts them to bed. No, Hillary had nannies for her one child. You gotta read the book. Then, you decide if you want to vote Hillary in as a senator and endure more of Clintonism.
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Summary: Seeing the Clintons for what they are
Review: Those who trash The Case Against Hillary Clinton don't answer any of the charges that Noonan makes against Hillary, which makes me wonder why not. How did we get to the point where elitists can pose as liberals and so-called liberals don't seem to care? Those who suggest that Noonan "hates" Hillary should read or reread the chapter where Noonan dreams about what Hillary might say to media executives about considering the effects of their productions on America's children. Noonan is passionate and compassionate, not hateful. She practically pleads with Hillary to be congruent, to stand for what she claims to believe instead of using politics for personal gain. There were moments during my reading of this book that I was brought to tears by Noonan's exposure of the painful reality of the harm the Clintons have wrought on America. Noonan points to what she calls "the sheer impossibility of seeing them (the Clintons) for what they are. The Clintons know that many Americans find it very hard, and maybe impossible, to see them clearly, particularly in a time of such pleasantness and bounty." This is painfully true; the Clintons are good salespeople and good actors, which makes them extremely difficult to see through. If you are primarily interested in being an affluent, comfortably numb "liberal," or in staying in denial, you won't care, and you won't make the effort to see. Noonan's book is a powerful effort to help those who are willing to see clearly to do so.
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Summary: Objective examination prevails
Review: Noonan has laid out the facts - it's our choice whether to ignore them or not. ... [A]s a Democrat, I grew weary of expending more and more energy in a vain attempt to maintain my ignorance, believing that the Clintons must be, after all, good people. No more. Noonan's book lays out Clintonism raw. Quite gutsy in a day when to observe facts is to be guilty of hatred.
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