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Summary: The Master Has Done It Again!
Review: Ah, the Ragin' Cajun has done it again! Beautifully mixing research, truth, wit and style, Carville has written another book that exposes the hate-filled right wing in America. Carville gets to the "meat" of the story behind the coup...the facts that the conservative press conviently ignored. You can always count on Carville to give you the truth!
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Summary: This book has new relevance after election 2000
Review: Carville is perfect at drawing the countries attention away from Clinton's filthy behavior. Liberals will eat this up and Conservatives will puke. Don't waste your money, borrow it from the library.
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Summary: Best brief summary of Whitewater in print
Review: How often do you agree with every word of a serious book, while laughing at three-minute intervals? This book is being referred to as a partisan attack on Kenneth Starr, as though "partisan" meant one-sided and unfair. It's neither. It is simply righteously angry (and regularly uproarious). Any fair-minded, decent human being ought to be just as outraged as Carville is by the expense of taxpayer dollars in a waste of shame that Mr. Starr's "investigation" became. In my name as a citizen of this country, a woman was put in jail for 18 months because she refused to *lie* to a grand jury. NOT because she refused to tell the truth, but because she refused to perjure herself. The tactics Mr. Starr used would have been morally questionable in prosecuting the mafia; used in a five-year investigation, not of a crime, but of a man, they were indefensible. Carville marshalls his facts neatly, punctures his opponents' hypocrisy crisply, characterizes the cast of conspirators accurately, and is far more merciful to his enemies than they were to their enemy, or to the innocent citizens who got in the way of their witch hunt. This is the compact version of the Whitewater expose that Gene Lyons and Joe Conason have given us in more detailed form. It takes exactly the right irreverent tone about an episode in this country's history that cloaked itself in impenetrable pomposity until the very last moment, when the OIC's report had to be turned in, and it was finally clear what the country had gotten for its money. It got a report in which sex is mentioned 543 times, and Whitewater twice. It's factual, it's clear, it's funny, and it's right. Bet Mr. Starr wishes he could say any of that about the Starr Report.
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Summary: Best brief summary of Whitewater in print
Review: How often do you agree with every word of a serious book, while laughing at three-minute intervals? This book is being referred to as a partisan attack on Kenneth Starr, as though "partisan" meant one-sided and unfair. It's neither. It is simply righteously angry (and regularly uproarious). Any fair-minded, decent human being ought to be just as outraged as Carville is by the expense of taxpayer dollars in a waste of shame that Mr. Starr's "investigation" became. In my name as a citizen of this country, a woman was put in jail for 18 months because she refused to *lie* to a grand jury. NOT because she refused to tell the truth, but because she refused to perjure herself. The tactics Mr. Starr used would have been morally questionable in prosecuting the mafia; used in a five-year investigation, not of a crime, but of a man, they were indefensible. Carville marshalls his facts neatly, punctures his opponents' hypocrisy crisply, characterizes the cast of conspirators accurately, and is far more merciful to his enemies than they were to their enemy, or to the innocent citizens who got in the way of their witch hunt. This is the compact version of the Whitewater expose that Gene Lyons and Joe Conason have given us in more detailed form. It takes exactly the right irreverent tone about an episode in this country's history that cloaked itself in impenetrable pomposity until the very last moment, when the OIC's report had to be turned in, and it was finally clear what the country had gotten for its money. It got a report in which sex is mentioned 543 times, and Whitewater twice. It's factual, it's clear, it's funny, and it's right. Bet Mr. Starr wishes he could say any of that about the Starr Report.
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Summary: Starr Wars
Review: If you are looking at this book then you probably know exactly what this book is about and the tone the author takes. You are probably a Clinton supporter and are looking for a book that gives you some nice facts to reinforce your dislike of old Mr. Starr. Well that is exactly what this book offers, 160 pages of anti Starr. It warmed my heart that there is an author out there that can give as good as he gets and fights back for all the negative anti Clinton smears we have lived with over the years. Is the book full of facts, well they are facts that I want to hear. Are they the whole story? Well probably not, these types of books do not tend to present the full picture, just the picture I want to see, but you probably already know that. This book delivered what I wanted, anti Starr info. It reinforced my opinion that the whole Star thing was just one long political dirty tricks campaign that old Tricky Dick would have been proud of. I would have liked the author to have also focused some on the Republicans that were full steam ahead on the whole Starr thing and all the bogus themes they came up with to investigate. What is sad is that so much money and time was spent on nothing, but uneducated hatred with the funny part being that most Americans now view the investigation as just a dirty political motivated hate campaign. Overall the book is fun and has a fight back attitude about it. It will only take a few hours to read so you do not feel so bad given the book is more fast food then steak dinner.
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Summary: Starr Wars
Review: If you are looking at this book then you probably know exactly what this book is about and the tone the author takes. You are probably a Clinton supporter and are looking for a book that gives you some nice facts to reinforce your dislike of old Mr. Starr. Well that is exactly what this book offers, 160 pages of anti Starr. It warmed my heart that there is an author out there that can give as good as he gets and fights back for all the negative anti Clinton smears we have lived with over the years. Is the book full of facts, well they are facts that I want to hear. Are they the whole story? Well probably not, these types of books do not tend to present the full picture, just the picture I want to see, but you probably already know that. This book delivered what I wanted, anti Starr info. It reinforced my opinion that the whole Star thing was just one long political dirty tricks campaign that old Tricky Dick would have been proud of. I would have liked the author to have also focused some on the Republicans that were full steam ahead on the whole Starr thing and all the bogus themes they came up with to investigate. What is sad is that so much money and time was spent on nothing, but uneducated hatred with the funny part being that most Americans now view the investigation as just a dirty political motivated hate campaign. Overall the book is fun and has a fight back attitude about it. It will only take a few hours to read so you do not feel so bad given the book is more fast food then steak dinner.
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Summary: Bulldog Carville at his best
Review: James Carville does not like Ken Starr. It would be safe to say he loathes Ken Starr, perhaps even outright hates Ken Starr. One thing's for certain, Ken Starr's relentless, and often irrelevant, witch-hunt against President Bill Clinton did nothing to improve Carville's opinion of Ken Starr. President Clinton was not only James Carville's boss, (Carville being an expert political analyst) he was (and still is) a good friend. President Clinton was also supposed to only be being investigated by Ken Starr for some supposedly shady business maneuvers with the Whitewater real estate deal that at its simplest was a bad deal that lost some people a lot of money. However, time and evidence proved that nothing illegal occurred. Yet, the Republican operatives, who were bitter at losing the Whitehouse to a southern upstart, couldn't accept that. So, they applied pressure to Starr (a supposed `Independent' Counsel) to find something, anything, they could pin on Clinton. Starr embraced the challenge with a near religious zeal and somehow managed expand his investigation to such a degree that an inquiry into a real estate deal somehow became a referendum on Clinton's sexual habits, particularly his affair with intern Monica Lewinksy. This really pissed of James Carville (and that crude word is justified for how Carville felt). Carville felt the need to address Starr's wild goose chase and "....And the Horse he Rode in On" is his response.
Don't let Carville's vitriol, southern drawl, and bulldog mentality dissuade you. He pulls back the curtain the wizard and reveals Starr to be the fraud that many think he is. Carville addresses, point by point, all the supposed reasons that Starr is using for turning a real estate investigation into pornography that would make Larry Flynt proud. Carville fiercely attacks Starr's tactics, his theories, his justifications, his `evidence', and punches a mack-truck size hole in middle of one of the biggest individual abuses of the justice system. Opponents of Clinton aren't likely to find much to like in this book, but those who were angered by this whole ridiculous process will feel grateful to Carville for giving a voice to many of the emotions they had. All that, plus a mouth-watering recipe for brisket, makes "...And the Horse he Rode in One" a valuable read.
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Summary: I agree, The title alone deserves five stars
Review: James Carville lays out the case against Ken Starr in brilliant terms. His use of hyperbole is necessary to explain Ken Starr's hyperbolic case against the President. Any one truly interested in the rule of law and the presumption of innocent until proven guilty, that has been a hallmark of our republic since it's inception should read this book, and find out just why the right wing is out to get the President and will use any means legal, but mostly illegal, means to do it. Jame Carville just wants to shed some light on the plot, and succeeds brilliantly.
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Summary: Informative and shocking
Review: James Carville, set out to do the same thing he says Ken Starr did Starr, launching a paristan attack. However, James Carville doesn't have supeona power and isn't a government employee. James Carville has the right to be partisan and polimic because he is a private citizen. Ken Starr doesn't have that right because he the Special Prosecutor. I didn't agree with Mr. Carville that the Clinton's committed no crimes in Whitewater, I think that Congress needed to appoint an independent Counsul to investigate it. However after reading this book I certainly don't believe that Ken Starr should ever have been appointed to the post. The conflicts of interests of Starr that Carville documents are too many to count. Whatever you think of Bill Clinton he never should have been hounded by the not-too-Independant Counsul. I'm giving the book four stars because James Carville made many valid points.
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Summary: Carville's all out smear campaign against Starr
Review: Like many people, I was not intially aware just how bad Ken Starr really was. Although I was a Clinton Loyalist inspite of White House problems, I never imagined Mr. Starr would have taken the investigation to the heights he did. Somewhere along the line. the independent prosecutor decided that he was above the law. Although not as hefty as several of the other books doccumenting the Clinton Inqusition, Carvile provides a basic summary of the real story and congressional overreaction to it. Yes, Clinton has problems, but seeing as how hidden extramartial affairs crossed party lines, this was never something that was supposed to be investigated. When I bought this book amidst impachment hearings, I genuinely did not know if congress was going to remember the will of the people. Each day of coverage seemed more twisted and horrific than the next. Reading this book really helped me through those times and I would highly recomend it to anybody who was interested in getting the bare facts about sexual McCarthyism. May future generations grow up without personally experiencing the near tragedy I witnessed.
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