"I realized something that should have been apparent to me much earlier: I was in the middle of a plot to get the president." A quarter of a century after Woodward and Bernstein's history-making expose All the President's Men stunned the nation by capturing the Nixon presidency in the throes of turmoil, Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff gives us an equally explosive and surprisingly suspenseful behind-the-scenes account of his investigative role in...
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Murder Investigations Thriller Fiction Literature & Fiction Mystery, Thriller & SuspenseThe Editor and most other reviewers have done an excellent job in reviewing this book, and here I would like to concentrate on some aspects that are important to me. Isikoff points out that Nixon and Clinton both hated their enemies, but that they were different in an important respect: Nixon deep down had a suspicion that his critics might be right, but Clinton deep down believes that his enemies are scum. He also concludes...
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Finally there is a definitive book on the events of the past year. Isikoff has written a thoroughly engrossing book that will be used for generations to come to explain why Bill Clinton was impeached. There is a lot to hate in this book if you are a die-hard partisan. Clinton supporters can react with righteous indignation about the conduct of Tripp and Goldberg while Clinton haters can relish in the accounts of the preditory...
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Isikoff's book provides a detailed blueprint to events we are all, regretfully, too familiar with, showing with great clarity the incestuous links and synergies between the known and lesser known players in all sides of this historical melodrama. Nobody looks good: yes, there was a right wing cabal squaring Chicago, Arkansas, Philadelphia and Washington DC; yes, in all probability Starr & staff had a political agenda in...
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It will be immediately evident to anyone who reads this book that some of the reviewers below didn't even pick this book up, as they seem to be responding to some concept of what they think it (or he--the author) represent, rather than the book itself--which is one of the most gripping narratives I've read in years, and the fact that it paints the most telling portrait of our president yet, and is filled with never-before-disclosed...
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This is a powerful book. As a social and economic conservative member of the "vast right-wing conspiracy", and a psychologist, I feel vindicated by Michael Isikoff, as I was by David Maraniss. My from-a-distance impression based on Isikoff's and Maraniss' books, along with media coverage and my personal observations, suggests that President Clinton shares a personality disorder with many politicians on the "vast left-wing...
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