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Title: Truth at Any Cost: Ken Starr and the Unmaking of Bill Clinton by Susan Schmidt, Michael Weisskopf ISBN: 0-06-019485-5 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 25 April, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.72 (46 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Lewinsky scandal: the prosecutors' views
Comment: Truth At Any Cost does not pretend to be evenhanded. Instead, co-authors Susan Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf examine the Lewinsky affair from the standpoint of those inside the Office of Independent Counsel. The result is a new perspective on an exhaustively covered scandal.
This book dwells little on Whitewater and the other investigations that led to the appointment of Independent Counsel Ken Starr. The authors instead concentrate on the sexual scandal that led to Clinton's impeachment and how Starr and his subordinates responded. It would have been nice to know more about the men and women who investigated the president, but the focus is on personality rather than biography. The authors depict Starr in a much different light than the oft-demonized caricature that was spoon-fed the public. Again, it would have been nice to know more about Starr's background, but the concentration is on his character. Starr is presented here as a conscientious but politically naive lawyer better suited to the bench than to the OIC.
Although relatively brief, the book drags a bit but picks up steam in the latter chapters as the independent counsel gathers and compiles evidence against the president. A few new revelations emerge along the way. Among them is Hillary Clinton's central role in the defense of her husband and in the counteroffensive against his opponents.
This book is worth reading just to see why, as well as how, the prosecutors pursued this case so vigorously. Their motivations often run counter to the stereotypes floated at the time, and this makes for a new spin on an old story.
Rating: 4
Summary: Finally The Truth About Ken Starr And Bill Clinton
Comment: The authors have done the nation a service by laying out the truth behind the Starr-Clinton battle. Kenneth Starr comes across as a very honorable and honest person, although politically naive if not incompetent. The Clintons, their administration and their defenders, come across as absolute low-lifes who would resort to anything to avoid the truth. The book contains very little that's new to those who kept abreast of the situation from internet sources, but may be of considerable value to those who relied on the main-stream media. The only comment in the book with which I strenuously disagreed was the authors' calling Matt Drudge an internet gossip columnist. Now that most of the facts have come out, the Drudge Report was the best site to gather the truth and the whole truth. In retrospect he did the best in-depth reporting of the scandals. That is why I am disappointed in the authors disparaging Mr. Drudge. Do they want us to continue listening to a left-wing mainstream media that not only slants the news, but much worse, censures the news or just ignores many newsworthy items that would be critical of the Clinton administration?
Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: This smarmy little work of personal opinion, conjecture and gossip fits in neatly with its subject: independent counsel Kenneth Starr and the private lives of any human being that had any contact with President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary. Highly recommend wearing your gloves to keep the oil off your hands.
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Title: Like No Other Time : The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever by Tom Daschle, Michael D'Orso ISBN: 1400049555 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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