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Summary: Polarizing
Review: Hmmmm, How many other recent books received either one or five stars, with almost nothing in between? Ms Noonan is one of the best wordsmiths working today; this book confirms it. Those who have criticized the writing, rather than the subject, are showing their bias. And the subject? This book clearly shows that Hillary! can comfortably take her place beside Al Gore, Al Sharpton, James Carville, her husband and other leading lights of the Democratic party. I wonder if the Rev Jesse Jackson is still her spiritual advisor? Buy the book!
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Summary: The Olympian View
Review: Beyond the specifics of Hillary Clinton and her ambitions and actions, this book is about our culture, our nation, our world and the jeopardy we place them in by investing power in people whose values are narcissistic fulfillment and the assuarnces found from wielding power. Peggy Noonan catalogues how those things have cost us in the past and how present circumstances portend to repeat that catastrophe if we make that mistake yet again. We are often captivated by the superficial: how people talk and look and seem. We don't plunge beneath the surface in quest of substance. Noonan's description of Hillary Clinton highlights that tragic flaw in our national consciousness. She warns us about the possible courting our own doom, now and worse still later. Brava! Ms. Noonan
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Summary: Hillary's a Joke
Review: Ms. Noonan has simply spelled out for us in an elegant fashion what any person who has an ounce of common sense and whose mind isn't closed to the truth already knows. Mrs Clinton cares about nothing other that the accumulation and exercise of power. The gullibility and willingness to be lied to of the American people never ceases to amaze me. This woman has no shame. She will say anything to defer guilt from herself no matter how strong the evidence against her or the President. It has been a very long seven years and I for one will be glad to see the scandal-ridden shameful Clinton years draw to a close. That is, of course, unless New Yorkers are willing to let Hillary pull off her Senate scam. Thank you Peggy Noonan for reminding us just how blind the American people can be when it comes to Ms. Clinton.
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Summary: The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth
Review: Finally, someone speaks out and tells the true store of Clintonism. Peggy Noonon is a talented author who spent a great deal of time an research to uncover all of the devious tricks that have been pulled on us by the Clintons since 1992. I realize now why the people of Arkansas wanted the Clintons to move to Washington. This book tells the story like no other. Buy it now before its too late!
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Summary: GREAT BOOK BUT.....
Review: This is an interesting read full of facts but that is the problem,because nobody on the left wants to believe it.They would rather continue to buy into her phony charm which is a Clinton trademark.However,Liberals should not worry because phony charm is what wins the day in the new millenium.Remember,it's not who you are that matters anymore,it's how good you can pull the wool over everyone's eyes that count.
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Summary: The truth coming out about Hillary without press spin on it!
Review: This is a very good book; it lays out the problems with Hillary. I liked it because it was not a biography on the cLIEton's. The author gives you the facts and statements of Hillary without the spin from the press and the talking points of the left-wingers. Some people believe since she was a Reagan writer, therefore she is disqualified. There is one problem with that; those same people want us to believe all the people who came out of the cLIEton's Whitehouse and the books they wrote. An example is George Stephanopoulos book. I am saying just be fair. Buy this book!
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Summary: Can you say polemic? Can you say wafer thin?
Review: Amazon has not put up my first review of this (hmmm...a little early to shout conspiracy theories, but considering the other reviews on this page I am curious why), so let's try it again.This slim book is well written. I do not argue with the quality of the writing itself. Indeed, it raises several disturbing points about HRC, which have been reiterated through any number of currently posted reviews. But I think it is important to keep in mind two things. First, as Noonan herself has pointed out, this book is a polemic. That is, it is not intended to be a balanced, objective work (and all you poststructuralists out there can object all you like to the word "objective"), but rather a work with a single point of view intended to prove a single point: ooh, isn't that HRC a bad woman? However, the problem with a polemic is that it is, in essence, preaching to the choir. Noonan raises some interesting points, but nothing that we haven't--including a number of investigative committees--heard ad nauseum. Instead, we are treated to imaginary conversations that she "dreamed" up (and how pathetic a rhetorical device is that may I ask? or perhaps we should ask "Dutch" and see what he thinks), plus a pop psychology point of view attributing thoughts and emotions and motivations to HRC with no facts to back them up. Second, and I find it very interesting that no one has brought this up in the context of this book being a polemic, Noonan is a very well compensated POLITICAL SPEECHWRITER for the Republican Party. Did anyone expect this to be anything more than a character assasination written to convince knee-jerk conservatives who hate everything that both Clintons represent that they are right? Really, how tiresome. Couldn't this have been condensed into some article for a rightwing magazine? Ah, but how many people would buy it then, huh? As a New York City resident, I am not thrilled with either HRC OR RG as a candidate. But nothing in this wafer thin book--both in terms of pages or in argumentative weight--is either surprising or compelling. I have nothing but disdain for most politicians. Neither is likely to get me to care enough to vote. And yes, that is sad. But many, many Americans apparently feel the same: just check the actual percentages of people who vote. That may be due more to both Republicans and Democrats who desperately need to be "right" rather than do what is best.
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Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: Peggy Noonan has written another wonderful book. Having read her previous books(including the most helpful"Simply Speaking") and all of her WallStreet Journal pieces, I have been looking forward to this one. I was not disappointed. While I did not appreciate the fantasy piece in the middle (a little too much like "Dutch"--which Ms. Noonan criticized in her review in The Wall Street Journal) I really enjoyed the writing and the message of this newest book. Finally, a coherent chronology of the moral degradation that the Clintons have created for all of us. Just wish I lived in New York so I too could vote against Hilary... Hoping to hear more from Peggy Noonan - an occasional visit to Chris Mathews' HARDBALL is not enough. She has so much talent.Looking forward to her next book.
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Summary: Hate from the right
Review: Noonans Reaganite hate of the Clintons spews forth from the pages of this book. Based on a few facts and lots of rumours and accusations this book would be considered libelous in many villages of the world. Why this group HATES continues to puzzle me. We can find "lies" from every politicien from Caeser to Clinton... in fact today's newsbite political arena almost demands it.This book will sell a few copies to the right wing and to a few 'open minded' types... but it offers no real information. You'd be better off to do your own research... Peggy Noonan can write, but she can't remove the personal venom based on her love of RR.
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Summary: The Case Against Hillary Clinton
Review: Ms. Noonan is the same "author?" who forgot to write about Ronald Reagan's involvement in the Iran-Contra affair. She writes about Clintonism, I personally am tired of "Noonanism." She appears to be a very bitter and cynical person. I would not recommend her book. I prefer "The Little Red Hen."
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