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Summary: TRUTH
Review: Anyone who has paid attention to the ambitious, opportunistic, Lady MacBeth like political career of "Mrs" Clinton with an open and objective mind will see that Mr. Morris is being completely accurate and truthful in this expose of the LIES, DECEIT and MANIPULATION of the Clintons and Ms. Hillary in particular.There is nothing in this book regarding the various fiascos, scandals and cover ups which surround the political lives of the Clintons which surprise me. And to call Morris a knee jerk Bush supporter is downright hilarious- I have seen him repeatedly state that Bush's handling of the war in Iraq will cause him to lose the election. Morris currently believes that Kerry will actually win. So much for the bogus theory that Morris is a Bush sycophant. Then again those comments are coming from the lunatic lemmings of the left who actually believe bringing down the star ratings on Amazon is a form of political protest. Get a life losers. Anyone who refuses to believe that Hillary is one of the most self promoting, idealess frauds in the history of politics is either an ignorant partisan hack or reaaaaaaaalllly dumb.
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Summary: Morris' Analysis Always Unflinching
Review: Dick Morris as a pollster and strategist is unequaled. I think many try to minimize his analysis and insight but his track record is unparalleled. He is always dead on and he usually tells it frankly and uncompromisingly. He knows both Hillary and Bill Clinton better than most. Of the crowd who has been up close and personal with the Clintons, Morris is probably the only one who will tell the unflinching truth. People like Begala never will.
With that in mind, I highly recommend this book. Morris takes Hillary's flattering version of herself to task in this work. He refutes the public image she has carefully honed and penetrates to the real Hillary, particularly the political chameleon that she has been over the past 25 years. He provides specific examples, which have weight because they will stand fact checking and scrutiny. He writes in a conversational, easily readable style.
For example, he shows how Hillary took pains to morph into a Martha Stewart housewife and mother, when some of her feminist comments alienated a large portion of women in this country. Morris discusses her role in the firing of civil servants at the White House Travel Office and a host of other lesser and greater scandals engulfing the Clinton presidency. By taking apart Hillary's version of herself, the public persona she wants you to accept and which is endorsed by and promulgated by willing synchophants, Morris accurately predicts what Hillary will be as a U. S. Senator and possible President.
Besides being an unflinching look at Hillary's past political life, the book is prescient in its anticipation of Hillary's future political steps. Recently for example, Hillary has staked out a more conservative position on immigration reform than most conservatives. How's that for beginning another transformation? After reading Morris' book you will know that is fully in keeping with her character. Become what the polls and the public expect. The facade is not real.
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Summary: Our biggest fears are confirmed
Review: Dick Morris has painted a chilling description of the junior senator from New York. Having worked with the Clinton's for over 20 years Mr. Morris was in an unusual position to view the Clinton's from the Arkansas governorship to the White House. He details how Hillary was always there to cover up the self destructive scandals that Bill would continue to bring on himself. Mr. Morris disputes the image of a concerned and loving First Lady that she pitches in Living History. Rather Mr. Morris paints Hillary as a cold and calculating mastermind of the Clinton White House. He exposes Hillary's only two loves in the world - power and money. He disputes Hillary's claim of being shocked when she found out about Monica Lewinski. How could she be shocked? Bill had repeatedly cheated on her year after year. I never liked Hillary before reading this book but now I am as afraid of her as I am Satan himself. And to think that her ultimate goal is to be the President scares the living heck out of me.
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Summary: Decent read - excellent for a flight.
Review: Dick Morris is a good writer. I fount that this book is very well organized and all the sources are clearly identified. The conclusions seem somewhat outrageous at times but easily accepted as just the authors' opinions. My book was autographed by Mr. Morris at a book signing and I was impressed by his book introduction. I still think 'Off with Their Heads' was a better read.
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Summary: So what else is new.
Review: Dick Morris is a man with an axe to grind, that's obvious straightaway. But what he tells you is shocking. Shocking, as in, "I'm shocked--shocked!" He says that Hillary has been carefully "branded" and that the woman who won the senate seat in New York is light-years from the woman who served as Arkansas' first lady and a big fish in the tiny pond of the Rose Law Firm. He tells us that what Clinton says publicly often does not jibe with what she expresses in private. He says that, overburdened by public appearances and other duties, her "face time" with her advisors is seriously limited and that she is overdependent on their advice for the actual nuts and bolts of her legislative and committee duties. He tells us that Clinton is a control freak, that she is suspicious of those who offer objections to her ideas concerning policy, legislation, and even office protocol. He says that there is a disconnect between the powerful Senator and former U.S. first lady and ordinary people. He points to her wealth and privilege. So what else is new? Is there really anything in here that tells us something we don't already know about 100% of the White House, 90% of the U.S. Senate and 75% of the House of Representatives? That they present a false front, groom their public faces, say what people and constituents and the media want to hear? That they have more wealth than the average person? That they're ambitious? What politician isn't ambitious? I'm not a Hilary fan, but this is less than a vicious attack. It's just silly.
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Summary: Objective look at Hillary Clinton
Review: Dick Morris' political and personal affiliation with the Clintons provides the background for this book; since it provides honest, relevant, and numerous examples of Hillary "rewriting history," the book succeeds in proving its thesis. I was surprised and impressed with the depth of information he provided, as well as with the objectivity, and even compassion, with which Dick Morris laid out his story. It is not a Hillary bashing book, but a probing look into the woman herself, her own words and actions bringing to life the book's premise. Dick Morris gives examples of lies Hillary herself writes in her own autobiography and refutes them. Mr. Morris provides a balanced view of Hillary, pointing out her strengths and gifts, as well as her weaknesses. His analyses are based on sound thinking and experience and enhanced by revelations of his own deep humanity. This book is not a book necessarily of wide range or scope but succeeds in what it attempts to do. It is well written, and not encumbered by
rhetoric or extraneous facts, but concisely and interestingly makes its point.
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Summary: Precise
Review: Dick Morris, after "Off With Their Heads", follows up with this great book about Hillary Rodham Clinton. Morris carefully explains the emergence of the "Hillary Brand", in which the former First Lady is undergoing a transformation before our very eyes, preparing for a run at the Presidency. Morris warns that Hillary wears a mask, and what you will hear from her is not what you will get. Deep down, she is the same old Hillary. Morris worked with the Clintons for 2 decades and no one knows their shrewd political plans better than Morris. I found the portion regarding Morris helping Bill in his Arkansas governor races particularly interesting, as that is when he first came to understand what drives Bill and Hillary Clinton. Everyone should read this before 2008!
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Summary: Marketing HILLARY
Review: Even though I keep coming back to Morris for his cunning political insight, I've for some reason or other never given his books an unqualified recommendation. No such reservations here. Rewriting History is well written, thoroughly researched, deeply interesting, precise, fair, and above all a lucid exploration of Hillary's personality and decades-long political evolution under her husband's tutelage, that will clear the haze for those who have been mystified by the motiviation of the Clintons.
This is not an insider-tells-all book in the traditional sense. There are few juicy tidbits here that haven't already been widely relished elsewhere. Rather, the book was written as a reaction to the persona Hillary constructed and that was recently buttressed by her autobiography, Living History. Her cultivation of this persona is so complete and calculated that to distinguish it from the real Hillary he calls it the HILLARY brand.
Based on his decades-long intimate experience working with the Clintons, Morris contributes an indispensible insight into someone who is, in some circles, seriously considered a potential future candidate for the presidency. Morris does not fall into the trap of treating Hillary as a clone of Bill, but drawing on comparisons with past presidents, he expounds both their strengths and weaknessess, and one of the great assets of this book is the honest and straightforward way he addresses both.
Hillary is passionate, uncompromising, incredibly disciplined, and manages with an iron rule that tolerates no dissent or disloyalty. Her ideology is rooted in early connections with ultra-Left wing causes, and she takes any disagreement with those preconceptions very personally. Not an intellectual herself, she is easily led by left-wing radicals. Asked once by Morris for a character flaw that could be used to soften her too-perfect public persona, she replied that she "[couldn't] think of anything." Like Ronald Reagan and George W Bush, she has a strong sense of good and evil in the world, but unlike them includes a very great many Americans in the 'evil' category.
Steeped in self-righteousness, she will employ absolutely any means to meet her ends. She illegally kept secret the meetings of her health care task force, used confidential FBI files and employed private detectives and physical intimidation to prevent Bill's many affairs from becoming public. She cold-bloodedly fired and smeared the White House travel office staff and denied credit to the ghostwriter of It Takes a Village. Unfortunately, the shield of motherhood and domesticity she hides behind whenever her actions are scrutinized would be unavailable to her as president.
Her deep sense of entitlement leads her to be mired in continual scandal, including (but not limited to) the Whitewater deal, Castle Grande/IDT, and her cattle futures trading. She had no qualms about using the resources of the White House for her personal Senate campaign, including pardons of fraudsters, drug dealers, and terrorists-- all in return for donations and votes. She brazenly solicited gifts from wealthy donors, including, of course the unheard-of $8 million advance on her book, right up until the minute she began her term as senator.
Her yearning to be interesting yields some comical untruths. She claimed to have been named after mountain-climber Edmund Hillary (unknown until five years after her birth), made up a story about her daughter nearly being killed on 9/11 (Chelsea was nowhere near the WTC), and spun a tale about discrimination while playing high-school soccer (her school didn't offer that sport). The obsessive name-dropping seems designed to lend herself importance by association. She feigns love for New York, a state she knew nothing about.
On the one hand, HILLARY overplays her role in welfare reform and international politics just as she downplays her work for American Communist party lawyers and the Black Panthers. She denies any culpability in the Hillarycare fiasco. She denies that her husband's position played any role at all in her own success, even though she was herself at best a mediocre lawyer and politician.
HILLARY is a political brand calculated to appeal to her customer base, but offers no clarity about what kind of president Hillary would be. She takes credit for others' work and blames others for her failures. Morris concludes that a HILLARY presidency, characterized by paranoia and vindictiveness, would most closely resemble that of Nixon. Ironically, Hillary may finally have become what she detested most.
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Summary: A very good read, great insight into the Clintons
Review: I bought this book to get an insider's view of the Clinton administration and the facts about the scandals, not necessarily to learn more about Hillary Clinton. This book does that exceedingly well, regardless of your political persuasion. This book is NOT a 'bash Hillary' book. In fact, the author many times mentions the strengths of both Bill and Hillary. I thought Bill was a raging liberal until I read this book. I thought Hillary had stuck by Bill so that Bill could succeed - this is not the reason, if Morris is correct. Excellent history and insight into the Clintons. Morris was Clinton's advisor for nearly 20 years. He knows them in and out. The satisfying thing for me was summing up all the scandals - what really happened, what was the final result, etc. I had forgotten hwo the Paul Jones case concluded, and that the whole Ken Starr thing would have not have happened if Bill Clinton settled in the first place.
So disregard the politically motivated reviews of this book - it's incredibly interesting and is great reading. If you're conservative, the last chapter is going to depress you!
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Summary: Not what you expect
Review: I'm a conservative; no doubt what the New York Times would call the extreme, right-wing fringe. However, I found Dick Morris' book a tome that didn't want to "dis" Hillary as much as a man seeking to find reasons to praise her. He comes across as a true left-wing moderate, one wanting for Hillary to be bold in her espousal of left wing causes and honest in her past history. This, he reveals, she has sadly failed to do. In her laser-like focus on gaining political power, she shifts with every political poll. He reveals how she has thrown away every core principle except her pursuit of her own definition of women and children's rights. It portrays her not so much as political savant as a desperate woman seeking to validate her own life and her many ambitions. It's a difficult read for the true right wing, such as myself, however it's an entertaining discussion and Dick Morris carries the story well. It's also a telling insight in the woman who would be president.
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