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The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Paperback)

by Joe Conason (Author), Gene Lyons (Author)
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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Channel 4 Books (24 Aug 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752219715
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752219714
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,262,876 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In this book journalists Joe Conason and Gene Lyons seeks to uncover the truth behind the millions of dollars that went into investigating the former President and First Lady between 1989 and 1999, culminating in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Kenneth Starr report and Clinton's impeachment. When Hillary Clinton spoke of "a vast, right-wing conspiracy" determined to bring down the President, her husband, many people simply dismissed the idead. Yet the fact that have emerged since then strongly suggest a concerted, covert effort by Bill Clinton's enemies to discredit him, aided by his own reckless behaviour. In 1989, Republican National Commitee chairman Lee Atwater first perceived the young Arkansas governor as a threat to Republican control of the White House, and the results was a cascade of well-financed attacks that undermined American democracy and nearly destroyed the Clinton presidency.


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Joe Conason was a staff writer, columnist and national correspondent for the Village Voice from 1978 to 1990, and in 1980, he won the New York Press Club Byline Award. Gene Lyons won the 1980 National Magazine Award, and was general editor at Newsweek from 1982 to 1986. His books include The Higher Illiteracy, Widow's Web and Fools for Scandal.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Actual journalists survive in the present age, 10 Mar 2000
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This review is from: The Hunting of the President: The Ten Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardcover)
Mr. Conason and Mr. Lyons have done a great service to the public, to journalism, and to history in writing this book. They detail thoroughly how a group of malicious or deluded or greedy people were able to harass the president of the United States for seven years with the eager collaboration of the American news media. The authors show exactly how little substance there ever was to allegations of President Clinton's guilt in any of the public crimes he was found guilty of before trial, and sometimes before investigation. They show ABC News editing their own tape of Hillary Clinton's answer to a question to imply that she lied; they show the New York Times and the Washington Post burying stories, reporting events according to their own party line, editorializing on mythology rather than facts, and generally turning in the most shameful imaginable performance at manipulating public opinion. It is a thoroughly depressing story with a few real heroes--one an Arkansas woman who went to jail for 18 months rather than commit perjury in the witch hunt that Kenneth Starr's investigation became, and another President Bill Clinton, who continued to govern the country intelligently, wisely, and tirelessly in the face of the most vicious smear campaign since the red scares of McCarthyism. It is not pleasant reading, but it is necessary reading, and is highly recommended to anyone who prefers fact to gossip.
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