...AND THE HORSE HE RODE IN ON : THE PEOPLE V. KENNETH STARR

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Summary: Analysis of a witch-hunt.
Review: Maybe Carville hits a good ol'boy tone and uses hyperbole a little too often, but it hardly detracts from this simple, brutal diatribe against the Starr Investigation. Carville goes beyond accusations of partisanship and pinpoints the players who are attempting to bring down a president. This book is imformative and often very funny, and also very frightening. Everyone should read this book as a counterpoint to the reports in the mainstream media, especially anyone angry at Clinton or tired of hearing about the investigation. The similarities between this investigation and McCarthyism are all too apparent.

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Summary: he paints the ugly truth about Starr
Review: Me and Carville think the same about Kenneth Starr. Neither one of us like him. When you get through reading this book if you don't agree with us, then you probably don't believe in the principles that made our country. It is mind boggling that people in this country could stoop so low to ensure winning. In some ways they won a scrap, but they lost the big war. Starr professes to be a Christian, but does un-Christian deeds. Carville gives it to you straight and simple and concise. I've read other books and they reaffirm everything that Carville tells us. Starr was no hero and there was no rightful justice served by his witch-hunt. Read it and see if you don't come up with the same opinion of Starr and his antics that we have.

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Summary: Engagin' Pagin' from the Ragin' Cajun
Review: The Clinton impeachment saga is long over, but the wounds to our republic have not healed. Given the benefit of hindsight, Ken Starr's role as "independent" counsel is seeming less like bad luck, and more like the first salvo in a struggle to restructure the American political system without the inconvenience of holding elections.

James Carville uses his Cajun wit and straight talk to get to the heart of who Ken Starr really is. Written in 1998, "And the Horse He Rode In On" uncovers Starr's alliances with far-right Republican operatives. The book also shows up Starr's $40 million Whitewater "investigation" for what it was: a politically-motivated fishing expedition to bring down President Bill Clinton. That the Republican right came within a whisker of succeeding, ignoring the "high crimes and misdemeanors" impeachment standard of the Constitution, should scare the crud out of any American patriot -- right, left or middle.

It should shock all Americans that Starr's work uncovered nothing. Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate and Troopergate turned up no illegal behavior on the part of the Clintons, but gave Starr and his fellow travelers plenty of chances for smear and innuendo. Carville chronicles the way Starr leaked information in order to coerce witnesses to testify. Carville also follows the incredible system of payoffs that kept Whitewater alive far beyond its natural life.

Keep this book around to remind you of what happens when biased political dogs are let loose against duly elected officials.