You Learn by Living

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Good sound advice.......2007-08-27

My mother told me she had the opportunity to go listen to Eleanor Roosevelt give a talk at her college during the 1930's. She said Mrs. Roosevelt was a powerful and inspriational speaker, while at the same time seem like a next door neighbor.

After reading this book, I have to agree with my mother (don't tell her that!). This book is filled lots of very practical and useful ideas for everyday living. I would recommend this book for high school reading and then have them re-read it about tens after graduation.

You Learn By Living by Eleanor Roosevelt.......2007-08-23

I enjoyed the book very much. I am quite an Eleanor Roosevelt admirer and found much of what was in the book to be ageless in its presentation. It is a book I intend to give to my granddaughter.

You Learn by Living , Eleanor Roosevelt.......2007-04-10

This is a excellent book for any graduate, no matter what stage of life.
Eleanor Roosevelt offers advice on how to be the best person one can be.
Even at middle age I found this book to be very inspirational at this stage of my life. Live life to the fullest.

Everyone should read this book.......2003-07-26

This is a little-known but delightful gem of a book. The inimitable Eleanor Roosevelt was a prolific author, but this effort is among her very best. Forged by adversity throughout her life, Eleanor was born into a privileged, wealthy family. Her father, Elliot, was Theodore Roosevelt's brother.

My favorite chapter is "The Right to Be an Individual." Mrs. Roosevelt stresses that individuality is something to be prized, yet people want to remain safe, surrounded by a group. She stresses we should strive against this and always be true to ourselves. This is a simple, yet eloquent philosophy. The entire book is full of wit, wisdom and some profound bits of advice. I am a better person for having read this book and I think everyone can take something meaningful from its pages.

You Learn By Living Eleven Keys For A More Fulfilling Life.......2002-09-29

In this wise and highly personal book, one of the twentieth century's most famous and beloved first ladies - Eleanor Roosevelt - offers advice on how to create a satisfying life.

Offering her own philosophy on living, the woman who was called Fist Lady to the World leads readers on a path to confidence, education, maturity, and more.

You Learn By Living is a book that remains fascinating, inspirational, and relevant to late - twentieth - century readers.

The keys to the kind of life Mrs. Roosevelt describes are:

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Olson turns her razor sharp vision on the Clintons' shocking excesses in their final days of office: the outrageous pardons to political cronies and friends, the looting of the White House, the executive orders that were sheer abuses of presidential power, the presidential library that is becoming a massive boondoogle of vanity more appropriate for a Third World dictator, and much more.

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What politicians will do to cling onto power.......2006-12-10

Conservative commentator Barbara Olson, who perished when the hijacked Flight 77 dove into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, reminds us with "The Final Days" precisely what sort of leeching parasites politicians can be. This is not a strict "Republican" or "Democrat" kind of thing, nor is it an issue pertaining to just "conservatives" or just "liberals." The book is not biased just because it reports only the Clinton wrongdoings, even though the author is a self-proclaimed conservative. In fact, the flip side to Olson's coin is the recently released "State of Denial" by Bob Woodward, who similarly documents the slime coursing through the current Bush administration and the ongoing war in Iraq. No, "The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House" merely reiterates a well-worn fact of life dominant in today's world: Power corrupts.

Olson's final account about the closing of doors in the Clinton administration should send alarm bells screeching through the minds of the American electorate, especially in a time when a Hillary Clinton run for the presidency seems almost inevitable. Olson reveals with painstaking accuracy the core tenets of Clintonism: Deny the accusations, play the helpless victim, and attack the enemy with relentless savagery. And, of course, it is permissible to lie whenever the chance arrives. When many liberal Democrats pressured him truthfully to explain everything behind the pardon of Marc Rich and his associates, President Clinton acknowledged that those he pardoned, who evaded millions in taxes and maintained connections with the Castro and Gaddafi regimes, simply had been wrongfully persecuted by the Justice Department. It is a classic example of the `victim hood' phenomenon so popularly paraded by the Clintons. Everyone seems to be a poor, pitiable victim, especially if their names end with "Clinton" and the persecutor is that dang "right-wing conspiracy." I'm afraid the term you're looking for, Mr. and Mrs. President, is "vast critical-thinking conspiracy." Or perhaps the "concerned American citizen conspiracy."

Like "State of Denial," "The Final Days" wields sharp facts to counter the myths surrounding popular politicians. Clinton may have presided over the largest economic expansion in U.S. history, but the shameless "For Sale" sign dangling around his neck during the closing days of his administration calls into question his serious character and moral flaws. Similarly, Bush may have stated "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq, but the fact that we are still there waging a failing campaign at the expense of American and Iraqi blood does not make his acts justifiable. I highly recommend both books to spark in your head the idea that maybe we need to rethink seriously the decision of putting these kinds of people in power.

A book about two topics: pardon and donation........2006-05-26

I listened to the audio version of this book. While most of the things said in this book may be true, it appears a bit biased. In addition to facts, the author uses some adjectives which show her personal dislike of the famous couple.

In the end, I had an impression that this book grew out of author's frustration upon Mark Rich pardon. Many chapters are dedicated to that case.

A disproportionately large portion of the book is devoted to two topics: pardon and donations. At one point the audio book spends a large amount of time only listing names of who donated what item. It goes on and on and on with names that make no sense and contribute nothing much to the story. That could have been moved to the appendix to keep the flow going.

I was hoping to find details about mischievious behavior by Clinton staff during the last days. There was no mention of that.

FAILING TO CROSSOVER.......2006-04-15

"The much talked about Marc Rich pardon has become an appropriate symbol of the entire eight years, but Mrs. Olson does a commendable service by clearly detailing the effrontery of his (Rich's) misdeeds, and an even more skillful demonstration of the President's specious and insulting attempt to justify this shocking act. To add fuel to her raging fire, she quotes former President Jimmy Carter who openly stated "I don't think there is any doubt that some of the factors in his pardon were attributable to his large gifts. In my opinion that was disgraceful."

Naturally, given her neo-con bent, Ms. Olsen failed to mention the extremely salient point that the attorney representing Marc Rich's pardon application was none other than Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's aide.

Excellent and bloody right!.......2006-03-18

All of you Clinton lovers should actually learn to not turn the blind eye on many of these things Clinton did during his presidency. The last few minutes before he was impeached.
I can admit George Bush is a bad president himself but I can also admit what Bill clinton stood for. Corruption!
See the pardons such as the nationalistic terrorist group from Puerto Rico plus the tax cheat and a whole list of other losers that Clinton pardoned.

A Catalogue of Iniquities. .......2004-07-28

The last days of the Clintons were an occasion for the country to witness just how corrupt this two for the price of one team actually was. They took furniture and gifts that were not their's for the taking, and appeared to be granting pardons on the basis of what law breakers held the most influence within their circle of friends and family. From arsenic to Mark Rich, the whole squalid tale is recounted by the superlative Barbara Olso, who sadly is no longer with us.

The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Clinton

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The Way to Beat Hillary
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The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Clinton
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Here's your one-stop guide to everything Hillary and her staff don't want you to know. Written in the style and format of Regnery Publishing's New York Times bestsellers The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy and Politically Incorrect GuidesT, the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Dossier on Hillary Rodham Clinton is full of fresh reporting, devastating quotes, scandalous stories, funny sidebars, and forgotten but telling incidents from Hillary's past.

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The Way to Beat Hillary.......2007-10-18

This book is a road map for Hillary Clinton's defeat. I just hope the Republicans read it and get their heads out of the sand.
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History After 2000.......2007-09-14

This was an interesting CD to listen to because it gave a history of what Senator Clinton has been up to since she left the White House. It is some what of a rehash of other stories but it has new information too. I thought it was enticing the way the Clintons are doing the one, two punch for campaign contributions. Bill goes out and exploits the fact that he was President to his financial gain. Then he can give the money to his wife for his political gain no matter where he got it from because they are married. It's a pretty sweet scam.

The CD also tells about the policies that she intends to implement and that most of it is for financial gain and power and not to help the people. I like the part where with all her pork barrel project her state was one of the few that was going down economically while the rest of the country was moving up.

So all in all it was just funny stuff to hear and pretty tongue in cheek. If you're a die-hard Hillary fan I don't think you'll hate it, just say it's all lies and laugh it off.

Scarier than expected.......2007-08-14

The dossier is more frightening than I expected, and from what I knew before reading it, that's saying something. How is it possible that this woman could become the next President? Are people really so easily manipulated by media and marketing consultants that they'd buy into her agenda? Do we deserve her? Maybe so. Ignorance is rampant. And in this, as in most cases, ignorance is NOT bliss.

Sometimes the truth hurts.......2007-05-16

Sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes people become so hardened and toughened that they seem impervious to truth or goodness; but even these may be "hurt" by the truth, even if only "hurt" to the extent that they may be prevented from attaining their goals. Tough Hillary Rodham made accusations on national television that her husband Bill was unfairly being targeted by a "vast right wing conspiracy", and somehow succeeded [as she likely hoped she would] in diverting the attention of many Americans away from the bad conduct both she and Bill had long engaged in. Even today, some years after she made the famous remarks on television, she and her propaganda pals from time to time claim that there is a vast right wing conspiracy; but now they claim it is out to get her ! Hillary and her sponsors want to install her as ruler of America, and the truth about her may make that impossible if people in America do not forget that truth. Sometimes the truth hurts, and Hillary and her people know very well that the real truth about her could hurt her chances of becoming president of the United States, and "Empress of America".The Empress Project

Let the schmere begin.......2007-01-26

If you read between the lines you'll see some good mixed in with the bad, but as far as being a well written book, I don't think so. There are too many articles, factual analysis may be a little off too, but it is enlightening. Everyone should know who our top politicians are, a few skeletons here, but she doesn't show both sides either. A decent book, but readers beware. Three stars for interesting content, not the writing.

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I love Hillary Clinton!
Love Her, or Hate Her, Its The Real Deal.
Engaging, absorbing and truthful

Living History
Hillary Rodham Clinton
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As with most books written by politicians while in office (or at least aiming for one), Living History is, first and foremost, safe. There are interesting observations and anecdotes, the writing is engaging, and there is enough inside scoop to appeal to those looking for a bit of gossip, but there are no bombshells here and it is doubtful the book will change many minds about this polarizing figure. This does not mean the work is without merit, however, for Hillary Clinton has much to say about her experience as first lady, which is the primary focus of the book. Those interested in these experiences and her commentary on them will find the book worth reading; those looking for revelations will be disappointed.

Beginning with a brief outline of her childhood, college years, introduction to politics, and her courtship with Bill Clinton, Clinton covers a wide variety of topics: life on the campaign trail, her troubled tenure as leader of the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform, meeting with foreign leaders, and her work on human rights, to name a few. By necessity, she also addresses the various scandals that plagued the administration, from Travelgate to Whitewater to impeachment, though she does not go into great detail about each one; rather, she seems content to simply state her case and move on without trying to settle too many old scores.

Along the way, she offers many apologies, though perhaps not the kind some would expect. She does not shy away from her "vast right-wing conspiracy" comment, for instance, though she does wish that she had expressed herself differently. Regarding the Monica Lewinsky scandal, she maintains that her husband initially lied to her, as he did the rest of the country, and did not come clean until two days prior to his grand jury testimony. Calling his betrayal "the most devastating, shocking and hurtful experience of my life," she explains what the aftermath was like personally and why she has elected to stand by her man. In all, Living History is an informative book that goes a long way toward humanizing one of the most recognizable, and controversial, women of our age. Shawn Carkonen

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The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller

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Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. Like many women of her generation, she grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or grandmother. She charted her own course through unexplored terrain -- responding to the changing times and her own internal compass -- and became an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others. Wife, mother, lawyer, advocate and international icon, she has lived through America's great political wars, from Watergate to Whitewater.

The only First Lady to play a major role in shaping domestic legislation, Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled tirelessly around the country to champion health care, expand economic and educational opportunity and promote the needs of children and families, and she crisscrossed the globe on behalf of women's rights, human rights and democracy. She redefined the position of First Lady and helped save the presidency from an unconstitutional, politically motivated impeachment. Intimate, powerful and inspiring, Living History captures the essence of one of the most remarkable women of our time and the challenging process by which she came to define herself and find her own voice -- as a woman and as a formidable figure in American politics.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations and constant public scrutiny. Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. Like many women of her generation, she grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or grandmother. She charted her own course through unexplored terrain - responding to the changing times and her own internal compass - and became an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others. Wife, mother, lawyer, advocate and international icon, she has lived through America's great political wars, from Watergate to Whitewater. The only First Lady to play a major role in shaping domestic legislation, Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled tirelessly around the country to champion health care, expand economic and educational opportunity and promote the needs of children and families, and she crisscrossed the globe on behalf of women's rights, human rights and democracy. She redefined the position of First Lady and helped save the presidency from an unconstitutional, politically motivated impeachment. Intimate, powerful and inspiring, Living History captures the essence of one of the most remarkable women of our time and the challenging process by which she came to define herself and find her own voice - as a woman and as a formidable figure in American politics.

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The hobo Philosopher.......2007-09-19

I was too cheap to buy this book but I borrowed a copy from the library. Surprisingly I found that I liked Hilary more than I thought I would. Despite all the allegations about her cold, calculating and aggressive "masculine" nature, I found her to be very feminine and womanly. I enjoyed especially hearing about her Republican dad and her basically middle-class upbringing.
She is obviously concerned about women and children issues. To be truthful she sounds very "girly" to me - not the least bit "manly" - and being a man and liking the status, I don't know if this is a good thing.
She obviously had a better editor than her husband. Her book reads nicely and is of acceptable length. Bill is another story but we all know about Bill.
So would I vote for Hillary for president? Sure, girls don't scare me - and the smarter they are, the better.

I liked it.......2007-08-17

I don't know what people were expecting out of this book. She spent eight years in the spotlight, and was exonerated of all charges, so you weren't expecting any surprises were you? And it is a memoir, one that she freely admits to being her take on events. I know she can be polarizing, but she is also a good writer. There's nothing clunky about this book and it covers most everything quite well. It's good, regardless of your politics.

I love Hillary Clinton!.......2007-07-16

I read this book when it came out and I thought it was very good. She's a great author and a wonderful person. I'm sick of conservatives constantly going after her. She is a good person and you can tell in her book that she is a good wife as well. I liked reading about how she grew up the best. Yes I support Hillary Clinton and if she gets the nomination I will vote for her as well. Vote yes if you like Hillary Clinton and support her running for president!

Love Her, or Hate Her, Its The Real Deal........2007-07-09

As we move through the year 2007, the 2008 Presidential race is already in high gear, and it is very possible that we may have our first female President in Hillary Clinton.

I enjoyed this book for the way it "filled in the blanks" about her early life, but also went into great candor about her private tribulations, in a VERY public life. Her telling of the period when she learned the truth about President Clinton's affair with a certain intern, was chilling and real, and we perhaps came to respect her
decision to remain married to him. Mrs. Clinton attempted to do more with her role as First Lady than many of her more recent contemporaries, and while some find this unsetteling, hello, this is America. A women can choose her course, and the First Lady should be no different.

To me, the most telling part of the book is when she talks about the campaign trail. Yes, in our nation politics has bceome a very big game, and as she puts it, if you can't play the game, don't run.

Thankfully, Mrs. Clinton can play the game, and play it quite well!

Ken

Engaging, absorbing and truthful.......2007-07-03

As a foreigner, I found her book very interesting and informative. She is an excellent writer and the book showed her intelligence, dilligence and determination. She is on her way back to the white house.

Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House

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Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House
R. Emmett Tyrrell
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First-hand reporting and revelations of recent behind the scenes maneuverings that shows the reality between her carefully crafted image.

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Pathetic Drivel.......2007-05-31

I was hoping for some intelligent insight into Hillary Clinton when I bought this book. Clearly, much can be said on both sides of this subject. I am trying to listen carefully to both and then make up my mind about her.

This is the equivalent to a rant from a right-wing Rosie O'Donnell. Don't waste your money on this rehash of old news.

Amazing coincidence.......2007-05-17

It is quite an amazing co-incidence that at least in some ways this book presented as "fact" seems to mirror a book presented as "fiction" which is entitled The Empress Project. Both books tell of an American woman of boundless and unbridled ambition seeking ruthlessly to become president of the United States. Author Tyrrell calls Hillary "Madame Hillary", while Dr. Little, author of the other book, writes a story of political intrigue about a CHICOM plot to make an evil American woman Empress of America. Are the similarities of these two books merely coincidental ?The Empress Project

Hillary-mania : A wonderful thing!.......2005-06-30

Whatever Hillary Clinton says and does is perfectly alright with me! If Hillary says it, then it's the truth. Hillary is perfect in every way! I love Hillary so very much!

Great book about a big liar.......2005-02-06

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. should be given a lot of thanks for exposing the liar named Hillary Rodham.

Thank you R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.!!!!!

Swing and a miss, a good article expanded to a book.......2004-08-19

Plainly stated, I was disappointed with this book. I am certainly part of the target audience for this book, being pretty disgusted with the Clinton duo. However, what I hoped for was a factual tome of the flaws, failings, and deceit of the junior senator from NY. What I got was a repetetive, smarmy, and poorly constructed screed against her that offered little new information and was so partisan in tone that it became untrustworthy even as a source of dirt. Authors on both sides of the political debate need to realize that too snippy a tone tends to turn off the average reader.

In more detail, the book is full of allegations of radical beliefs, wretched interpersonal skills, and bald-faced deceit but precious few illustrations of same. Don't tell me that Senator Clinton is a horrid person to work for with no sense of two-way loyalty, give me examples. Don't quote the radicals who supposedly influenced her beliefs, show me examples of her demonstrating those beliefs.

In short, while there is some interesting information in this book, it misses the mark. It could have been an exhaustive record of the senator's changing of beliefs, opportunism, and political deceit. Intead, we get an annoyingly repetetive and shrill attack without a great deal of substance. For anyone but those who simply want to nod and agree without learning anything new, this book is a wash.

It Takes a Village, Tenth Anniversary Edition

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The First Lady, a longtime child advocate, expresses her concerns for the children of today's world and offers her ideas for developing our society into one that values children's unique contributions.

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In celebration of the tenth anniversary of It Takes a Village, this splendid edition includes photographs and a new Introduction by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

A decade ago, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton chronicled her quest -- both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public -- to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become smart, able, resilient adults. It Takes a Village is "a textbook for caring.... Filled with truths that are worth a read, and a reread" (The Dallas Morning News).

For more than thirty-five years, Senator Clinton has made children her passion and her cause. Her long experience -- not only through her roles as mother, daughter, sister, and wife but also as advocate, legal expert, and public servant -- has strengthened her conviction that how children develop and what they need to succeed are inextricably entwined with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and individuals. In other words, it takes a village to raise a child.

In her new Introduction, Senator Clinton reflects on how our village has changed over the last decade -- from the impact of the Internet to new research in early child development and education. She discusses issues of increasing concern -- security, the environment, the national debt -- and looks at where we have made progress and where there is still work to be done.

It Takes a Village has become a classic. As relevant as ever, this anniversary edition makes it abundantly clear that the choices we make today about how we raise our children and how we support families will determine how our nation will face the challenges of this century.

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What do you get?.......2007-10-15

What do you get when a village raises a child?

Africa.

Assuming there is such a thing as an "African proverb," can Hillary point to one example of an African society that village-raises its children and is a good model for how she'd like the United States to be? Where in Africa did this village raising (versus family raising) result in something anyone would aspire to?

To tell the truth, her "African proverb" sounds more like one of the principles of Kwanzaa (an American invention that teaches socialism and collectivism to its gullible celebrants) than any authentic translation of something Africans came up with on their own.

And how about that lead-in? Children aren't rugged individualists. Hah! Communists like to demonize rugged individualism, but I doubt that Karl Marx hated children as much as Hillary misunderstands them. For someone who raised a child and presumably was a child once, I don't think Hillary paid that much attention. Did she never listen when the nanny told her about how Chelsea screamed "No, I want to do it myself"?

I'll tell you three things that most healthy children hate: sharing, unwanted assistance, and the teacher telling them to work in groups.

Not rugged individualists? I'll tell you what children are not. Children are not helpless little collectivist communist drones.

I have no specific evidence, but I strongly suspect Hillary relied on Bill Clinton's speech writing staff for her verbal twists. Bill was so fond of corny symmetries in his speeches, and you get them in the first couple of pages of Hillary's putative work: family values/valuing families. Aghhhh!

Decent summary of how the Left is trying to destroy families and give the state more control over our children.

Putting Kids First.......2007-09-29

This abridged CD version of the Hillary's book gives a clear picture of what concerns her - summed up in four words - children are our future. Since she's the reader, and she's recorded a re-introduction, you can hear her as both Senator Clinton the politician and Mrs. Clinton the First Lady. You really get a sense of what's at the core of her beliefs. Like her or not, this book contains some good parenting advice.

Easy Read. . .great reminder..........2007-08-08

This book is an easy read and a good reminder to all of us. Just like Hillary I had a similar experience growing up. It made my life more interesting and contributed a lot to my well being. Those life experiences made me a better person... Just goes to show our constant need for nurturing and with enough support the desired outcome is a possibility...

Judging a Book by its Content.......2007-07-05

Clinton's book is actually about children and raising them. It is not about stealing money, African folklore or turning America communist.

Those who fail to credit society are anxious to condemn Hillary for explaining what taxes do. It should be no mystery that children are cared for through doctors, teachers and the entire village. A child without a village is a child surviving in barbarianism. There is simply no choice to be made.

Hillary can write. Clinton does not hesitate to write about her experiences with daughter Chelsea, and from the experiences heard from others. Hillary describes everything from such experiences as Chelsea's breast-feeding to Chelsea's grape jelly sandwiches at school. I'm glad Chelsea hasn't experienced trauma from having her life documented in such detail as this here. I hear she has also learned to parallel park.

While the first half of the book makes a nice argument for organizing a community, in the latter half Clinton switches to name-dropping key government agencies, and their benefit. The first half of the book held my interest far better.

Judging a book by its cover.......2007-03-21

Other reviewers of this book have suggested one should not review a book without reading the whole thing. I love reading, but was unable to finish this one.

The title and cover actually do give reasonable warning about the contents. The title apparently refers to folk wisdom from the continent with the highest child mortality rate in the world - obviously the best place to emulate! Below the title is a picture of children the author may hope you believe are African, but they do not look like typical Africans to me. The front inside flap lists her professed qualifications, including the amazing fact that she had parents!

That part of the book that I was able to read continued in this pseudo-scientific vein. There are interesting ideas, fragments of apparently rational analysis, all embedded in a matrix of platitudes. Someone who aspires to be President must have an understanding of the potential negative aspects of a proposal, not just the hoped-for positives, and somehow they never make it into this book.

She's obviously a smart lady, quite capable of incisive thinking. Whether such thinking was left out of this book deliberately, or whether her background did not exercise her ability to see more than one side to a situation, I don't know.

Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Hell to Pay is yet another book on Hillary Rodham Clinton, this time from a conservative lawyer who served as the Republican chief counsel for the congressional committee investigating the Clintons' involvement in "Travelgate" and "Filegate." Barbara Olson traces the now familiar biographies of the president and first lady, contending that Mrs. Clinton is someone with dangerously liberal, even radical, political beliefs who "now seeks to foment revolutionary changes from the uniform of a pink suit." (Olson plays the theme heavily: each chapter of Hell to Pay begins with quotes from Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, which influenced the young Hillary Rodham.)

There are some interesting new tidbits scattered throughout the book, like the fact that after law school Hillary Rodham tried to become a Marine Corps officer but was turned down; or that she told her high school paper her ambition after high school was "to marry a senator and settle down in Georgetown." Olson, attempting to dissect the mystery of the Clinton partnership, writes, "Most self-respecting women would have left" after Clinton's repeated infidelities. "Hillary chose to stay. She behaves as both a desperate lover, and like a frantic campaign manager protecting a flawed candidate.... Hillary, it seems, long ago accepted Bill Clinton as someone who could advance her goals, as a necessary complement to her intellectual cold-blooded pursuit of power." As the Clinton presidency draws to a close, that pursuit has taken her beyond the White House toward a bid for her own U.S. Senate seat. Olson predicts the Senate won't be enough, just the next step toward becoming the first woman president: "Hillary Clinton seeks nothing less than an office that will give her a platform from which to exercise real power and real world leadership." While Olson admits that "Bill Clinton has always excited the greatest passion not among his supporters, but among his detractors," the same could certainly be said of his wife--whose supporters will probably consider Hell to Pay a rehash of a too-familiar story, but whose detractors will no doubt savor every page. --Linda Killian

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In this book, Olson separates fact from fiction and shows us Hillary's often disturbing complicity in her husband's affairs.

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A CLASSIC, MUST READ, FOR ANYONE WHO WISHES TO KNOW ABOUT HILLARY.......2007-07-24

HELL TO PAY, by the late Barbara Olson, is certainly a classic work in the literature that attempts to shed light on who and what HILLARY really is. This book was an early offerring on this topic published Regnery, which purports to be by an unabashedly conservative publisher, but which may not know the full story on HILLARY, and likely would lack the courage to print it all. In this pioneering work, Mrs. Olson did lay bare many revealing facts, including HILLARY'S early ties to Saul Alinski; but, for whatever reason, the book failed to make full disclosure about HILLARY and Bill, and their ties to communism. HELL TO PAY did have an influential impact upon Dr. Richard Little, and he reviewed it with care as he researched and wrote THE EMPRESS PROJECT, a book which does make all the connections, and does lay bare the grim and dangerous ties of world communism to some well known American political figures. Anyone who wishes to know about HILLARY (starting with the fact that her surname is RODHAM, not "CLINTON") needs to read both HELL TO PAY and the much more revealing book by Dr. Little entitled THE EMPRESS PROJECT. The Empress Project

Insightful, entertaining and far better than most of this genre.......2007-04-08

Very entertaining biography of Hillary Clinton that was penned by a well educated lawyer and not the usual rant ghost-written by a political hack. This book will show you the roots of Hillary's uber-liberal past and explain why she is in fact a raving left-wing lunatic and not the moderate she pretends to be.

This book should be required reading for every reporter covering the 2008 presidential race and every university political science professor, and will be invaluable to any voter who want to see Hillary for what she is and not the carefully manicured media image she projects.

Additional note about the author (not provided in the jacket) Barbara Olsen is a geniune hero who was on her cellphone right up to the end of her ill fated 9/11 flight providing invaluable details about the murderous fanatics who hijacked her plane and crashed it into the pentagon. The nation lost a true patriot that day.

Every American Should Read This Book.......2007-02-23

If anyone thought they knew the inner workings of the Clinton Machine, they REALLY need to read this most informative book. It enlightens the reader of the very early stages of Hillary's life, and all those who helped shape her, to what we know of her today. When ambition and drive are the most important characteristics that define one's goals, then Hillary Clinton is the champion. Her mentor Saul Alinsky, a known radical/socialist taught her well in dealing with 'any enemy' and how to erase their effect from one's goal. The goal is the prize, and nothing or no one should stand in the way-no matter who would be thrown under the bus, in the lust for power, money and fame. An absolute MUST READ FOR EVERY AMERICAN.

A Woman with a Serious Agenda.......2007-01-27

It is not nice to speak ill of the dead (she was killed in the 9/11 crash, for which
I am sure she would blame the Clintons if she could). But the woman showed not an
ounce of humanity herself, so I am not going to worry about niceties.

She is essentially trying to accomplish with this book what she could not accomplish
through the legal system. Perhaps one of the reasons why she is so utterly vindictive to the point of pettiness is that she was as goal oriented (read, power hungry) as Ms. Clinton and she failed to accomplish what she set out to do. This is her 2nd shot, and she may succeed this time. Who knows.

I am not an apologist for Ms. Clinton. I haven't followed her that closely. For all
I know she may be the harpy that she is made out to be. What I do know is that very
few world leaders are saints, many are tempramental, all make serious mistakes along
the way in both judgment and action. I could say that Ms. Clinton is getting the
brunt of this because she is a woman - and that may be a correct statement - but I
am going to assume that it is not. As far as I know, the women's movement was as
successful as any movement can be, acknowledging that life is never completely fair
& no battle is ever completely won, and so the reasons behind the "hate Hillary"
campaigns are something other than "she belongs in the kitchen."

Call me naive, but I am going to assume that if she did something really awful like -
oh, say - kill Vince Foster that the worst thing she could do now is seek the
presidency. She just isn't that stupid. You can be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you are running for office. I know that. She knows that.

Her "sins" lie in her personality, I guess. Or the fact that she is a liberal who
can win. She is called everything from "Hitlary" which would make her a fascist, to a far left-winger which would make her a communist. Call her anything. Just make sure she doesn't get elected. Because if she does, the world as we know it will surely come to an end.

I personally do not think she will win, not because she isn't capable (she won her
2nd term in office by an outstanding 67% majority which would suggest that somebody thinks she is doing a darn good job). I think that she will lose because historically the guy with the charisma wins - FDR, JFK, Ronald Reagan, Billy Bob.
And Obama has more charisma and sex appeal than all of them put together.

But I digress. Back to the author and her oh-so-important book. It is amazing how
someone could write this book without blushing while having supported the the unholy
trinity we have in the White House now (pardon me, had. Rumsfeld's gone, at least
officially. But we can add Rove to the mix. He is just as awful).

This is not a good book. She doesn't have to like or say good things about Hillary
to write a good book about her. But one should at least give the appearance of
objectivity. Instead she is like the trial lawyer who must get that conviction
no matter what.

If you are a right wing idealogue, you will probably love this book. If you are
one of the group of people who respond to columnists on [...] with their
paranoic, mean-spirited view of the world, buy the book. You will love it. You
will feel right at home. For the rest who believe there are two sides to every
story and every person, that the center rather than the outer fringes is where it is
at, save your time and money.

Didn't like the Author's "Star" magazine approach.......2007-01-21

First of all, I couldn't shake the feeling while reading this book that I was the teacher in a class and Barbara Olson was pointing at Hillary Clinton saying, "she did this and this and this." Also, it doesn't set well with me that Ms. Olson is trying to make a mint on a "Star" magazine type books with sordid details of someone else's life...I got it from the library.

About the book. It doesn't seem to me that Hillary Clinton is different from hundreds of other politicians who have sought power. There will be plenty here to upset you if you dislike her and reasons to write hate mail if you want HC to be president. There is definitely enough details to keep you entertained, but frankly I wouldn't give my money to this women.

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Rewriting History
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It's one thing to review a book by pounding out a few hundred words of criticism but it's quite another to review a book by writing an entirely new book. That's what Dick Morris, former advisor to President Bill Clinton, has done in Rewriting History, an energetic response to Hillary Clinton's Living History. Mrs. Clinton, Morris warns, is on a direct path to the White House due to a lack of Democratic alternatives and a leftward trend in the nation; therefore America must evaluate who she really is and not just what her memoir says. Morris's book is actually remarkably similar to the slew of attack books published about recent presidents but with the crucial difference that Hillary is at the very least four years away from the Oval Office. So Morris's criticisms of her, though backed up by a 20-year relationship with the Clintons, are rarely more than speculative, worrying about what she might do and asking ominous questions that are inherently unanswerable. Hillary Clinton, in Morris's view, is a much more insecure, disingenuous, and calculating creature than "Hillary," the palatable political product that won election to the Senate in 2000 and she's also an inferior politician to her husband. But as a political operative who has worked for both conservatives and liberals, Morris's indictments of Clinton evolve into a grudging respect as he demonstrates her considerable political resolve. All the same, he refutes many passages in her book with his own accounts of what transpired and indicts her integrity and behavior dating back to Bill Clinton's early career in Arkansas. Going forward, he says, she must decide whether to rely on her behind-the-scenes political acumen or embrace actual convictions. Often, Morris puts Clinton in no-win situations. For instance, while First Lady, she decides to get a dog, a decision that Morris infers is entirely politically motivated despite Clinton saying that it was because daughter Chelsea had moved out. Thus, if she had "admitted" her motivation was political, it would be an admission of cynicism and manipulation, but if she protests that her motives were simpler, Morris would have us believe that she's just lying. Nowhere is it allowed that the woman may have just wanted a dog. Rewriting History, co-written by Morris's wife Eileen McGann, offers a pleasing blend of Washington (and some Little Rock) gossip along with its political strategizing and is more valuable as insider scoop than presidential road map. Fans of Hillary Clinton will find little to alter their view and those who oppose her will find plenty of talking points for all the years of future debates that Hillary Clinton will surely inspire. --John Moe

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A smart and scathing bestseller: former Clinton adviser and confidant Dick Morris offers a response to Hillary Clinton's biography – to expose the history of lies and obfuscations this very controversial politician has left in her wake...

In Rewriting History, Dick Morris had his biggest bestseller in years––and with its subject, Hillary Clinton, perennially in the spotlight, this smart and scathing rebuttal to Living History is sure to have a robust life in paperback as well.

A long–time adviser to both Clintons, in Rewriting History Dick Morris turns his sharp–eyed gaze on Hilary, the former first lady, current New York Senator, and bestselling author. For, as he argues, no politician in America today is better aligned to become president in 2008–and none would bring more baggage to the White house–than Mrs. Clinton. Drawing on his own long working relationship with the Clintons, as well as his trademark deep research and candid, non–partisan analysis, Morris pierces Hillary's mask to get at the truth behind the distortions and omissions of her memoir. Here we meet the real Hillary, both good and bad: the manager who makes the trains run on time, but also the paranoid who sees all those who disagree with her as personal enemies; the idealist, but also the "advice addict" easily misled by the guru of the moment. Morris describes Hillary's sense of entitlement, and warns that it may lead deep into financial scandal. And he demonstrates how Hillary dodges criticism by pretending that every attack is directed not just at her, but at every working woman in America.

Ultimately, Morris argues, Hillary Clinton faces a choice. Will she, like Bobby Kennedy, see the error of her ruthless ways, and embrace the sincere idealism she professes? Or, like Richard Nixon, will she allow the darker angels of her nature to overcome her, jeopardizing herself and the country in the process? As Rewriting History suggests, we can only hope that her past performance is no guarantee of future results.

o For political buffs.

o Dick Morris's credibility as an insider–from his years of experience as an advisor to politicians of every stripe, to his own extensive interactions with the Clintons in the years leading up to and during Clinton's presidency–makes Morris's book the most qualified analysis of, and answer to, Senator Clinton's bestselling memoir.

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Political consultant extraordinaire Dick Morris, former Clinton adviser and confidant, turns his sharp-eyed gaze on Hillary Clinton - whose appetite for power, he argues, has only increased since her husband's checkered presidency. Morris draws on his own extensive interactions with the Clintons, as well as his trademark deep research, to create a rebuttal to Hillary's bestselling autobiography, Living History. Focusing on Senator Clinton's attempts to remake her image in preparation for a future presidential race, Morris exposes Clinton's habitual attempts to pad her resume, amplify her accomplishments, and otherwise misrepresent her life story - in short, to lie - for political gain. Armed with years of political experience and insider credibility, Morris rises to challenge the Senator's memoir, lifting the mask to reveal the dark side of Hillary Clinton.

Now, for the first time, Fox News political analyst and former Clinton adviser Dick Morris turns his sharp-eyed gaze on Hillary, the longtime First Lady, current New York senator, and bestselling author. For,as he argues, no politician in America today is better aligned to become president in 2008 -- and none would bring more baggage to the White House -- than Mrs. Clinton. In Rewriting History, Morris draws on his own long working relationship with the Clintons, as well as his trademark deep research and candid, nonpartisan analysis, to create a rebuttal to Hillary's bestselling autobiography, Living History. Morris documents how Hillary hides her true self behind a ""HILLARY"" brand that is chatty, charming, giggly, and warm --but is far from her true personality.

In Rewriting History, Morris pierces the mask to get at the truth behind the distortions and omissions of Hillary's memoir.

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Frankenstein Unbound!.......2007-08-08

Face it, fellow Americans: if Hillary Clinton did not exist, it would be necessary for us to invent her.

With 'Rewriting History', former Clinton campaign heavy Dick Morris plows into what he saw while doing hard time at the Clinton Oval Office, and what he concludes about uber-pol Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't pretty, folks: She's into Power. Raw Power. Raw, unbridled, absolute Power.

From the time the Hellmouth spat her up as an infant on the rocky slabs of Golgotha (complete with molten magma caul)---or, if you prefer, from the time Mighty Poseidon raised her up from the waves, a virgo intacto in a half-shell!---Hilary has plotted, cajoled, lied, triangulated, and maneuvered with a restless, hungering glee that would have made a Borgia pope blush.

Well, Duh! Look: it has become almost stupefyingly boring to observe that politicians don't really care about their constituents. They want the perks of office: the long 5 martini lunches with bigwigs, Hottentots, and sultans, howler monkeys; the chauffeured limos; the many invitations to get all liquored up in the Green Room and go mano a mano with Hannity, Mathews, or O'Reilly. Wouldn't you? Sure you would.

With that in mind, let's worry less about ethics, character, and competence, and focus on the one trait in our 'Leaders' we should value most: sheer Entertainment Value!

In that regard, then, Ladies & Gentlemen, my fellow Americans, through the pages of Dick Morris's peerless little sordid potboiler---you know her! You love her! You can't live without her! The next President of the United States----HILLARY CLINTON!

Don't groan. I'm throwing my vote for Hillary come 2008 because---well, for deeply personal reasons. Chiefly because I have a fiendish plan. Mainly because we need an interregnum of such beastly political malfeasance, something so utterly hellacious, as to---well, but I'm tipping my hand. It's not that important.

Anyway, Hillary will be more entertaining than anyone else. As Morris observes in what amounts to a collection of bile-dripping epistles devoted to all things Clintoniana, Hillary is a Nixon character: furtive, incapable of bonding with human beings outside her phalanx of titanium-faced harpies (scarier than she is, actually, which is probably the point), willing to sell her grandma into white slavery just to see the look on her face, more than capable of having subordinates or even intimates whacked (I'm lookin' at you, Vince Foster), and very, very paranoid.

The Clintons have sheer moxie, magic & unbridled audacity on their side. Why shouldn't they have Power as a kind of garnish?

Check it out, dawgs: Bizzle and Hizzle pretty much carried out rapine in the Ovum Office, turned the Lincoln Bedroom into a free-standing bordello, looted the White House of everything that wasn't nailed down, and stole the flotation devices & oxygen masks off Air Force 1---and all of this is just their final 2 hours in office alone---and yet still, despite it all, bazillions of registered American voters adore them! If that's a mandate for Divine Right monarchy, what is?

It's true that Morris, a man so feverishly ratty even his literary style sounds like Templeton Rat, has an axe to grind. Morris has a---well, *complicated* relationship with the Clintons. It's like a sort of perverted umbilical cord, and this one works two ways, only instead of feeding precious nutrients it spews out black bile and political poison. That's why "Rewriting History" is so much devilish fun.

Anyway, the point here is that Morris's little exegesis on the Arkansas Power Duet never fails to amuse: pound for pound, it's a truly wicked piece of political skull-duggery. The Portrayal of Lady Clinton is truly warts and all, though mostly warts. Big, nasty, blackish warts, with little scraggly hairs growing out, truth be told.

This might lead you to conclude, as Morris does, that 1) Hillary will do literally anything and everything to get elected Grand Poobah of the Republic; 2) given her brand name, she's likely to take the Prize---beware Obama, there can be only One!---and will, yet again, have those keys to the exhausted Lincoln Bedroom, where in the last Clinton Regime they were lining up overnight donors like 747s at O'Hare; 3) this will be a Great Tragedy for the Republic.

Not so! The Clintons, if not national treasures, are certainly national fixtures, like big, comfy, ratty barco-loungers. We want the Clintons because, unlike JFK, they're America as we see ourselves, not as we ought to be. For better or worse, they're our Ozzie & Harriet, our Augustine & Livia, Lucrezia & Cesare, Kermit & Miss Piggy, Big Bird and Snuffleupagus, Lord & Lady MacBeth.

And it can be said, as Morris someimes does, that Hillary is the supoerior in the political firepower arena: where Bill could tailor his views to every push poll or audience, the Hill can acually adjust her deeply held views (she's hawkish! she's dovish! she's right, left, cleaning up, flying right! she's the King of the Sea!)---better still, she she can also completely alter her dialect and voice! A human Transformer! Marvellous!

Plus, we'd have Bill back. Bill is the gift that keeps on giving: he could jam it up on the sax with Guy Ritchie and Madonna in the Lincoln Bedroom. You know you want it.

Anyway, Morris's book is, as usual, trenchant, nasty, caustic, bold, and deeply amusing. Election 2008, might yield us a national disaster (though it would be hard to imagine trumping the current White House denizen in that regard) but she'll be fun political theater.

As for Dick, though: if Hillary wins, he might find himself rewriting---well, if not history, at least his travel itinerary. Somewhere without extradition laws? Hell hath no fury, and all.

JSG

Rewriting History.......2007-06-16

This book will put chills on your spine. So scary! If this beast could be president our country will be destroyed. A must read before 2008. Lets face it there will be no chat or talk like she thinks-she is a calculating dictator and must be stopped. Thanks Dick Morris for letting giving us this side of Hilary. This is a must read for every American.

Hillary Clinton's 'Living History' exposed........2007-04-26

Dick Morris, political analyst and advisor under president Bill Clinton, offers a rebuttal to former first lady Hillary's Clinton's 'Living History'. Claiming the memoir is distorted and incomplete, Morris critically appraises the New York senator's potential for higher office. No better time to read it then now, as she is in the running for the Office of President.

Mr. Morris was someone who worked very close with Hillary Clinton on a daily basis for years. He reveals both some of her hidden strengths and weaknesses, so the book reads as if it is objective. The facts just keep coming in this book, and it seems dull at first, but keep reading. I would rate the book four-and-half stars. This book is worth reading but does have some strong language.

All Too Human.......2007-02-18

This is basically a warmed version of Travelgate, Whitewater etc covered more memorably in Ann Coulter's first book High Crimes. What Morris doesn't get is what Republicans fear from a Hillary presidency is not really her odious all too human weaknesses outlined here - stealing more china from the White House, installing her cronies in positions of power and demeaning the office through the garage sale of favors. That's a given. It's what her potential loony leftism might do to certain quaint ideas such as the first and second Amendments of the constitution.......

Why does Dick Morris always pick on Hillary? I can't be objective, but ..........2006-11-10

I personally really like Dick Morris, and respect his thinking and product, overall. But, I think Hillary is absolutely perfect and beautiful, yet he just does not seem to like her. I can't understand that, but I still really like Morris, and I truly love Hillary, forever. The book is interesting, though I don't know how accurate and objective it is. Decide for yourself, but if it's about Hillary, it will always be an interesting read. I guarantee it!

Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America

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Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America
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Absent a royal family, the American people have developed a thirst for subjects for gossip from on high. In Bill and Hillary Clinton, they have them. Roger Morris charges the first family with misdeeds committed while upon the throne in Arkansas: Bill taking money from Whitewater partner James McDougal; Hilary using well-connected brokers to win fabulous returns on her investments; the governor's affairs; and their friendship with a drug-dealing bond daddy, to name a few. Those after the dirt on the Clintons will love this wheelbarrow full of it.

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In the finest tradition of investigative journalism, Roger Morris goes far behind the public facade to expose the inner politics, personal passions, and gathering moral compromise that marked the rise of Bill and Hillary Clinton. After three years of painstaking research and hundreds of interviews, the author, a prizewinning historian, reveals in riveting detail the untold secrets of one of the most ambitious partnerships in modern politics.

Starting with the roadhouses and mob-ruled politics of the old South, Partners in Power draws the reader into the dramatic, seamy, largely hidden world that gave rise to - and explains - the Clinton presidency. Morris weaves together three essential themes: the parallel lives and tortured relationship of the Clintons personally; the essence of the bipartisan misrule that is Washington, D.C. (how the collusive culture of our national government defeats change); and, most telling, the behind-the-scenes story of the making of a president in a world where corrupting money and favors flow freely and the tyranny of wealthy interests and their captive politicians mock democracy.

Beyond myriad scandals - whether shady bond, banking, and commodity "deals"; the Whitewater imbroglio; abuses of power in covering up sexual infidelities; document "shredding parties"; the Vince Foster tragedy; or a multibillion- dollar Arkansas gunrunning and drug-smuggling ring implicating the Colombian cartel, the CIA, organized crime, and two Republican presidents as well as a Democratic governor and future president - Morris's evocation of a climb to power, is the most candid, revealing, and courageous portrait ever drawn of a sitting president. In its magisterial analysis of a political system gone lethally wrong, Partners in Power offers a brilliant perspective on a government and ultimately a people. As a dual biography of a first couple, it is without precedent in political literature.

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Republican Party Propaganda.......2007-05-04

His title sounds convincing for the evidence he sugests has already been proven to be fabricated lies, this is pure dirty political propaganda from the republican party propaganda machine.

The Backwoods Borgias.......2006-05-31

The 'Prologue' of this 1996 book describes Clinton's Inauguration. The face in the White House changed, but the same people were pulling the strings (p.4). Clinton's highest margin was with voters under 30. Morris notes the decay of cities and the loss of jobs (p.6). People hoped for a change with Clinton. Clinton's past in Arkansas would soon catch up. The opening chapters tell of Clinton's middle-class life in Arkansas. Uncle Raymond was the power in the family (p.4). He went to Georgetown (p.64), then to Oxford (p.84), and avoided the draft (pp.81-82). Morris suggests Clinton was tied to the "intelligence community" (pp.102-103). Hillary was raised in Park Ridge, a bastion of right-wing extremism (p.111). She was a gifted mimic and chronic teacher's pet. In 1964 she was a "Goldwater Girl" (p.122). Hillary was elected president of the student government when she was a junior (p.128). She then went to Yale Law School. She became involved in the legal rights of children (pp.160-161). [Do children know what they really need?]

Arkansas was "the most oppressed state in the union" (p.194). Their farmers were like medieval serfs. The newspapers and broadcast stations were controlled by the ruling class (p.196). [Is it different in your state?] Half the state Senators were paid off by the gas utility (p.197). Clinton had the support of the Stephens financial empire (p.199); he opposed local labor unions (p.200). Jimmy Carter's victory was a triumph of big money (p.201). Examples of Clinton's honesty are on page 211; he lied about the draft. Clinton talked liberal but acted reactionary (p.219). Hillary's financial prowess is on pages 229-230; BCCI is on page 234.

The Reagan reign was a return to the past (p.253); government openly backed Big Corporations. Wealth was taken from most Americans and given to the rich (p.254). People were worse off than before. Carter's election brought more millionaires to his Cabinet than Ford, Nixon, of Eisenhower (p.264). Carter's cuts in capital gains and corporate taxes, Reagan's reduced taxes for the rich and increased them on wage-earners, both led to today's impoverished America (pp.266-267). The high cost of media advertising makes candidates depend on funds from the rich. [That is the plan!] Page 294 describes the "corporate seizure of power in Washington" and the effects on pages 295-296. Huge debt increases by Reagan and Bush are measured by devalued dollars (p.299), lost jobs, lower wages, and fewer middle-class businesses (pp.302-303). Increasing wealth at the top led to poverty everywhere else (pp.303-305). Median family income was less valuable than for earlier generations. Now America is less egalitarian than Europe. [Morris does not mention Nixon's 1971 devaluation of the dollar as leading to this.]

Chapter 16 tells about the wide open town of Little Rock where money could be made fast (p.300). Was prosperity based on drug trafficking and money laundering (p.311)? Clinton's trick of "educational reform" is on page 320. Clinton's supporters for his 1984 campaign are on pages 331-332. Without Congressional oversight the special interests that donate to the President go unchallenged. The media monopolies won't tell (pp.349-350). Reporters who uncovered scandals saw their careers ruined (p.353). They avoid non-acute scandals to cover sensations. Chapter 18 covers the deregulation of S&Ls which allowed new scams with other people's money. Hillary was involved with McDougal's banking excesses (pp.324-325). The Clintons did not lose money on Whitewater (p.386). There was a multi-billion dollar drug smuggling operation in Mena that was linked to national politics (p.390); see Chapter 19. Clinton knew (p.405), and so did Bush (p.410).

Clinton did in Washington what he did in Little Rock (p.432). It tells how Gary Hart's campaign was sabotaged (p.433-434). Did Clinton have a psychotic lack of control (p.441)? Clinton, like others, grew rich from their political success (pp.446-447). Clinton always served the special interests (p.453); he did less for the state than Orval Faubus. Arkansas was worst in the nation for health care (p.456). Clinton's first term was not a new beginning but the same old show (p.467). Morris asked if he was linked to drug money and organized crime.

Seignorial Privilege.......2003-11-07

I looked forward to reading about the early life of Bill Clinton and his early marriage and the Arkansas days, etc, and this book has a lot on that--quite substantial. So I was a little shocked to arrive at page 440, where Morris refers to "Clinton's extra-marital relations with literally hundreds of women" Hundreds? That would be a minimum of 200. That's really quite a lot. I had always assumed a dozen or two.

I began to wonder how that would work. Is a governorship such an easy job (just a lot of paper signing and speechifying) that an accomplished shmoozer can fit it in between hundreds of trysts? Whatever you think of his politics, it must be admitted that it's quite an accomplishment, especially considering he wasn't really all that interested in the governorship or the trysts, but rather the presidency.

And what of the "Partner in Power"? Could she see early on that her husband was a politician of such consumate skill that he was a shoe-in for the presidency, and so chose to overlook his turning Arkansas into his personal harem? And what of Hilary's other partner in power, Vince Foster, now dead? If Morris touches on their "semi-private kisses and furtive squeezes", an "intimate professional bond between two attorneys", then surely he ought to dig a bit deeper on the cause of Foster's death. No sign of depression prior to the suicide. No death threats. What on earth happened to Vince Foster.

All these deeply intriguing topics--Bill's monumental multi-tasking, Hillary's apparent acquiescence, Foster's mysterious death--are touched on but lightly. What really interests Morris is financial scandal, into which category he places, seemingly, any transaction over $10,000. The book is larded with endless, and I mean Endless, details of money for campaigns, money made in teal estate, many made in banking, in retail, in government, in law, in public and in private--all with the implication or explicit assertion that a crime was committed. And Morris doesn't stop with the Clintons. The Republicans and Reagan in particular come under his moral lash for using too much money to get elected or to celebrate having been elected. Literally hundreds of pages are devoted to venting his indignation at the expenditure of money in politics, almost as though he believes that the only ones fit to govern are indigent altar boys or investigative reporters.

This reader would have liked less of the sort or quasi-incrimminatory fodder that fills the pages of the Village Voice and more probing into the feudatory state of Arkansas, perhaps interviewing some of the hundreds of women. There's a gripping story there, a noir classic, but I doubt it will be revealed by poring over old account ledgers.

The reality of the Bill Clinton.......2001-06-18

This is an excellent read! If you are unconvinced of the corruption we have had for the last eight years, then this book will cause you to reconsider. It also goes into detail as to how Bill Clinton got into this terrible condition.

Anyone who dismisses this book as unsubstantiated is obviously partisan and hasn't been paying attention to the news for the last eight years nor of late. An objective and reasonable person will see the truth and the truth is what is written in this book. It is well written and well documented. Mind you this is a close friend of Bill Clinton who wrote the book! No agenda - just truth for those who can accept it.

This book highlights the ongoing pattern of deceit, illegal substance use, womanizing by force and corruption. Frankly, I'd rather not be in denial but admit the obvious about this man. Hopefully the American people will never allow someone of this low caliber ever become President again.

The reality of the Bill Clinton.......2001-06-18

Anyone who dismisses this book as unsubstanstiated is obviously partisana and also hasn't been paying attention to the news for the last eight years. An objective and reasonable person will see the truth and the truth is what is written is true and well documented. Mind you this is a close friend of Bill Clinton who wrote the book! No agenda - just truth for those who can accept it.

This book highlights the pattern of deceit, drug use and corruption. Frankly, I'd rather not be in denial but admit the obvious about this man. Hopefull the American people will never allow someone of this low calibur ever become President again.

Hillary's Choice
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Same lousy writing and psuedo-psychobabble,

A non-fictional account of the Clintons

RECOMMENDED FOR HILLARY WATCHERS

Biased and Damaging

Just gossip

Hillary's Choice
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Vanity Fair writer Gail Sheehy's engrossing biography of Hillary Clinton is a refreshing departure from the political hit jobs that have appeared elsewhere in print. That's not to say Hillary's Choice is a pro-Clinton book--Hillary herself would probably bristle at reading it, and her husband ("The story of the Clinton presidency has always been the story of the Clinton marriage," writes Sheehy) comes off as a bright but demented cad. Yet Hillary's Choice is broadly sympathetic and often nonjudgmental at crucial moments. Sheehy writes very little about public policy, but includes plenty of pop psychologizing. She suggests that the president is a sex addict afflicted by what "a highly qualified mental health professional who works too close to the White House to be identified" calls "dissociative identities"--what used to be known as "multiple personalities ... a sum of various identities that have been split off at some time in the past." And the president gets away with so much in his personal life because Hillary has become his unwitting enabler: "Every addict or alcoholic needs one. The enabler is usually an intimate of the addicted person who allows him to persist in self-destructive behavior by making excuses or helping him avoid the consequences of his actions."

That describes Sheehy's Hillary perfectly: a woman apparently ignorant of her husband's several flings in the White House before Monica Lewinsky came along, and then willfully deceived by the president's lies until just hours before his momentous grand-jury testimony. Theirs is a mother-son relationship in which true love must negotiate its way through astonishingly difficult periods. That's not a formula for how marriage ought to work, but it has nevertheless helped this ultimate power couple achieve enormous success. Hillary's Choice is full of on-the-record and background interviews, all assembled in an absorbing narrative. Writes Sheehy: "The saga of Bill and Hillary, with its echoes of Eleanor and Franklin, or Tracy and Hepburn with undertones of Bonnie and Clyde, is animated by melodrama, high passion, narrow escapes, and knock-down-drag-outs." And it comes alive in this biography of the most enigmatic woman of our time. --John J. Miller

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A fascinating portrait of the most intriguing lady in America - The First Lady - by the bestselling author who has revealed more about her than any other.

In a real sense, Hillary's Choice is a love story - one whose rocky moments, rather than remaining private, have been publicized beyond any imagining.

What is the real story of the marriage of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton? Gail Sheehy began to discover it seven years ago, when she wrote the first revealing piece about Hillary. Since then, she has followed and recorded this relationship as only she can.

Hillary's Choice takes the Clintons from the moment their eyes met in law school through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion, and the ultimate price Hillary has paid for her love and her ambition.

Combined with in-depth reporting, Gail Sheehy has brought an acute understanding to the private dynamic of a very public an political partnership.

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Since the Starr report, the nature of the relationship between Bill and Hillary Clinton has been more hotly disputed than ever. Are they a cold, calculating partnership? A sex addict and his enabler? A long-suffering, lamp-throwing wife and her straying husband? Evacuating the private saga of America's most public marriage, Gail Sheehy takes the Clintons from the moment their eyes met (in school) through the incalculable humiliation of the Lewinsky affair and the drama of the impeachment battle. Sheehy reveals the power shifts, the passion, and the price Hillary has paid as well as her choices and their consequences.

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Same lousy writing and psuedo-psychobabble,.......2004-07-05

I must really confess that I can,t stand either women, either the author or the Clinton.
When in college I was forced to read the Rhetoric by Aristotle.Thank goodness, he went on and on and on about how a speaker must first establish her/his reputation and give reasons why she/he should be listened to.
Isn,t this the same Gail Sheehey who plagarized (read stole) important parts of her first novel Passages from a UCLA Psychiatry professor who was doing research on the subject.She settled out of court wisely, gave the good Dr. some dough, and must have laughed all the way to the bank.That was a long time ago and like Hilary she thought "wow, I can steal a lot of good stuff, not use some of it, pay the guy off and make a fortune." She has churned out book after book,none very good.She should have gone into politics in another country.Obviously, i was biased against the book but tried hard, really, to see if it had many redeeming qualities.
There is a great deal of factual information about Hilary, her childhood, her relationship with BIll but the interpretations of why she is motivated to do such and such are pretty shabby. I am a psychiatrist and find her attempts at divining both CLinton,s adult personalities from their childhood truamas pathetic guesswork by an amateur. I dont, think the Clinton,s can really stand each other, has anyone seen ANY genuine affection between them for all the time they,ve been on the world stage?They stay together for political and financial reasons and both seem to have very small conscienses while now both getting filthy rich.
Too be totally fair, some parts of the book are very interesting about many factual occurences Mrs.Clinton background but it didn,t change my mind about the author or the politician.

A non-fictional account of the Clintons.......2004-06-17

Read this book and you will understand why Bill and Hillary act as they do. ..... This book is much better than Hillary's fictional account of her life, "Living History". ..... "Hillary's choice is not to know what she knows." ..... A very enlightening account. ...... A "must read".

RECOMMENDED FOR HILLARY WATCHERS.......2002-10-23

I have had the dubious pleasure of reading and rereading quite a number of works addressing the life and times of Hillary Clinton.
While I am not a great fan of Billie, I must admit to sort of an admiration for Hillary. Be-that-as-it-may, I enjoyed this book. It was well written and I thought pretty well ballanced. Many of the "facts" presented, will have to be tested by time, but for now, I feel they are probably as close to the truth we will get.
Ms Clinton is certainly one of the more fascinating individuals of our times and I am quite sure history will continue to judge her as such. She is an interesting subject. In many ways, she is us. The author of this book is an interesting writer and between the author and the subject, we get a very interesting story. Thank you Ms Gail for writing it.

Biased and Damaging.......2001-09-14

Believe it or not, I am one of the few in the country that is not intimately familiar with all of the scandals of the Clinton presidency. I had hoped that, in reading this book, I would understand a little bit more in depth what had happened to have the nation in an uproar and gain some valuable insights to Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, the bias is so evident in this book that I know that I do not have a complete picture as to what actually happened.

In Ms. Sheehy's eyes, Clinton is a proverbial villian and she just assumes everyone else feels the same way too. While she could still present her case against him and not interfere with the integrity of the story, she takes every opportunity to make jibes and call him names. It is hardly objective to call him a philanderer incessantly - whether he is or not. However, the main problem with this attitude is that she lets this get in the way of reporting the evidence fairly. For instance, she makes reference to the stories of the State Trooper's quite frequently. She is overly eager to use their stories against Bill when it concerns his affairs. However, when the same sources indicate that there was an affair with Vince Foster by Hillary, she refutes their legitimacy. Then she goes on to refer to their allegations against Bill, seeming to forget that they also made allegations against Hillary. Which is it? Were they really discredited? Were parts discredited? If so, what parts and how? If they were discredited, why include a remark from an alarmed Bill Clinton to the effect that the AR governor should not be upset because he controls the state police? This only legitimizes their stories which gets us back to, so what's the deal with Vince Foster? As you can see, this book left me with many more questions than were answered.

While I do have a clearer picture of Hillary Clinton, the picture painted of her while in the White House, gives me serious reservation about how she would act if she was actually the President. If this book's assertion that there was really nothing to hide is true, it means that Ms. Clinton can not be trusted to be forthcoming when she believes that the hand is being called - even if she knows she has a winning hand. It would have made more sense to lay out the evidence against her and then give her argument as to specifically why she was withholding evidence. Maybe I could have seen myself doing the same thing if faced with the same situation but this is presented as a woman's grudge against the media for no justifiable reason. Of course, she also nevers really hits the question as to whether records were withheld by Mrs. Clinton. She spends a few paragraphs on the possible reasons an administrative assistant might not come forward with a box if she had been asked to find it and, not finding it, found it under her desk months later. After spending almost a hundred pages on her early life and college years, couldn't we spare a few to address the questions that would undoubtedly be brought up by events during the presidency? It simply doesn' hold water in my opinion. People have to have a reason for doing what they do. Especially people with advisors.

Just gossip.......2001-07-16

This book really has nothing to do with Hillary or the Clintons -- it has everything to do with Gail Sheehy - her mean-spiritedness, her willingness to gossip, her jealousy, her arrogance, her pain. This book is not good journalism -- not recommended for anyone to read.

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