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Title: State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton by Jerry Oppenheimer, Richard M. Davidson ISBN: 0-694-52263-5 Publisher: HarperAudio Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Accurate, Carefully Researched Portrait of the Clintons
Comment: Unlike Peggy Noonan's trashy tome about Hillary Clinton which I lambasted in another review, this book was excellent, being factual, carefully researched and well written. The author delves into family histories of both Clintons, which helps the reader to better understand how their upbringing shaped their personalities. Oppenheimer interviews numerous friends and relatives who were close to the Clintons, and disputes some inaccuracies found in other Clinton biographies.
Of all the books I've read on Bill and Hillary, this one portrayed them the most objectively and fairly. It is not a one-sided, gossipy tell-all but a careful study of the Clinton's marriage and an analysis of their very diverse, but complimentary personalities: Hillary as a strident, intense, ambitious perfectionist from the Midwest and Bill, an affable, laid-back, shrewd, womanizing Southern boy. Their strengths helped them to achieve their goal of the Presidency; but their weaknesses proved to be their undoing.
Theirs is not a marriage of love but one of raw political ambition and power, a business partnership in which a deal was struck before their nuptials. Of the two, Hillary comes off the worse. Her foul mouth and vicious "go-for-the-jugular" attacks against opponents and friends are legendary. Bill, clearly eclipsed and overpowered by his strong-willed wife, resorts to behaving like an oversexed school boy, unzipping his fly at the drop of a hat. Possibly his excessive womanizing is because Hillary castrates him on a daily basis, so poor Bill has to make sure his equipment grows back and is in working order....hmm, that sounds like a familiar Greek myth, only instead of entails being ripped out by a vulture and growing back overnight, we have...,well you get the picture.
This book is out of print, but if you can snare a used copy here at Amazon.com, you're in for an intelligent, enjoyable read.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not a hatchet job
Comment: I first saw this book referenced in Michael Tomasky's Hillary's Turn. Tomasky described this book as a hatchet job. State of a Union is far from a negative attack on the former First Couple, and actually paints a more sympathetic portrait of the Clintons than their most fawning sycophants usually do. State of a Union is little more than fluff but gives a good overview of a complex and nuanced political partnership. Jerry Oppenheimer manages to give childhood and marital details without dabbling in pure psychobabble, but this is a beach book and not history---and doesn't pretend to be anything else.
Rating: 3
Summary: Incorrect data damages author's credibility
Comment: Okay, so it's a small thing, but on page 92 of the Harper Collins hard-cover edition, the author states that one of Hillary's relatives graduated from Stevens College in COLUMBUS, MISSOURI. NOT! Stephens College is in Columbia, Missouri, which is also the location of the University of Missouri, touted by many, ironically, as the leading journalism school in the country. I really do not understand errors like this. Is it just plain sloppiness or carelessness? In the presence of a stupid mistake like this, are there possible other research mistakes, larger ones, perhaps? I will add that this book, notwithstanding the fact that after page 92, I read with some degree of skepticism, was fundamentally a good read, well organized, informative, and interesting.
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Title: Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Barbara Olson ISBN: 0895262746 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Case Against Hillary Clinton by Peggy Noonan ISBN: 0060393408 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Hillary's Scheme : Inside the Next Clinton's Ruthless Agenda to Take the White House by NewsMax, Carl Limbacher ISBN: 0761531157 Publisher: Crown Forum Pub. Date: 22 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Off with Their Heads : Traitors, Crooks & Obstructionists in American Politics, Media & Business by Dick Morris ISBN: 0060559284 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House by Barbara Olson ISBN: 0895261677 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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