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Summary: Political Psychodrama
Review: A properly iconoclastic (image-breaking) work offering the truth about Hillary Rodham Clinton. Take away the photo-op visage of William Jefferson Clinton; he is a mere facade, and you are left with Hillary's guts, brains and unforgiving determination; the innards of the Clinton presidency. Here lies the power. In Hillary; not Bill.Barbara Olson explains the psychological development of Hillary's socio-political game plan, her manipulation of the American legal system and her above-the-law attitude. Everyone in New York state should be assigned this book as required reading before the 2000 elections.
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Summary: Hell To Pay Hits The Mark!
Review: As one who has a keen interest in the Presidency, and in particular the current one, this book is a must read for foe and follower alike. If even half of what Barbara Olson has said is true, (and I for one believe it is all true!), then the Clinton legacy, as outlined in this well researched and carefully orchestrated work, must not be allowed to continue. My hat is off to Mrs. Olson!
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Summary: Hell To Pay
Review: Hillary Clinton is a radical leftist whose true politics and business practices are at _best_ of highly questionable legality. This is a biography of a woman whose life mission is the quest for power at the expense of democracy, truth, and the law of the land. The book is well sourced, indexed, and referenced. The author has done her job well. For those Clinton supporters who cry "politcal smear tactic", read the book first....
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Summary: The Great Pretender
Review: This is a great book exposing the shallow and pretentious appearance by the First Lady as someone who truly cares about the well-being of our children and our society while masking her true agenda as a power-hungry socialist. It has never ceased to shock me that this person has been put in power positions within our government that we never elected her to do in the first place.This book is documented quite well with excellent sources. Even though I tend to vote democratic, I have never been a big fan of the first lady. This book does a good job thoroughly explaining what I have intuitively felt all along and why.
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Summary: You need to read the book to actually review it
Review: ....Here is how Barbara Olson begins Chapter 1. She begins with this intro quote: "Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life." - Saul Alinksy, "Rules For Radicals" She then begins her book: "Do you remember Hillary's preelection baby? In the summer before the 1996 election, when the Clintons' popularity had waned and it seemed as if the struggle for reelection might not succeed, Hillary Rodham Clinton let journalist Walter Isaacson know that she and the president had 'talked about' adopting a baby. She let it slip that they were ''talking about it more now.'' She added, 'I must say we're hoping to have another child.'..." Brilliant juxtaposition and the book gets better from there. I especially enjoyed her analysis of how Hillary, far from being a passive "Tammy Wynette", actually commanded the team of "secret police" (Dick Morris's term) who's job it is to humiliate, intimidate and destroy the countless women who have over the years come in contact with his Crooked Willy. She is far from being a mere enabler. Because of her rise in power each time she rescues him from scandal, she, in their own sick little relationship, actually encourages his depravity. If you want to know how low this woman actually is, ask yourself why she has never addressed the sexual abuse allegations of the Democratic fundraiser, Kathleen Willey, or the rape allegation of Democratic campaign worker, Juanita Broadderick? And why, after years of destroying these little women, did she have the gall to go on national TV and flat out lie that the rumors (later of course proven true) that he had sex with the 21 year old Democratic White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, were part of a "vast right wing conspiracy"?
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Summary: Look at the evidence
Review: This is a fulgent, lucid book and another example that if you want to know the truth about the Clintons, ask the congressional investigators. They have the facts AND, because they are not politicians themselves, they don't have to be timid about telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Other examples are Dave Bossie and David Schippers, and also Jean Lewis of the now-defunct Resolution Trust Company. Regnery has hit another home run. Note to book buyers: The brick and motar chain book stores will not make it easy for you to find this book on their shelves, IF they carry it at all. (Just another reason to buy from Amazon - they don't engage in political censorship.)
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Summary: Hell To Pay
Review: I found this book very enjoyable. It is a terrific read. It could also be titled, "All you wanted to know about Hillary but were afraid to ask." I think anyone who previously presumed she was the smartest woman in the world or one of the country's 100 best lawyers will go away from this book with a totally different opinion. I also believe this author has the credentials to have written this book as objectively as she did. Who are we to argue with Barbara Olson...she has the information which we were kept from finding out...until now!
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Summary: New Yorkers: Make Up Your Own Mind
Review: Olson's "Hell To Pay" is a clear (for the most part) and concise description of a powerful woman, written by another woman with an edifying vantage point and a good legal mind. She obviously knows Ms. Clinton well and goes after her with a cudgel, as any other good writer would do if convinced by facts that the subject of research is worrisome. The book draws polarized reviews, and the reader will quickly discern why. Registered voters in New York State (where I used to live) especially should read this and other books about Ms. Clinton and make up their own mind as to whether or not the White House is behind some or many of the book's attack reviews.
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Summary: Ms. Olson Exposes A Phony
Review: This book is unabashedly anti-Clinton. And why not? The media won't, so somebody has to reveal the unseemly motives and behaviors that incubate the scandals that regularly bubble up from the depths of this White House. That's where *Hell to Pay* comes in. It spendidly unveils facts and events that the media overlook. There are other books about the Clintons. One (Brock's) is solid and factual, but a little ponderous to read. Others (Stephanopolis' and Isakoff's) are more compelling, but they divulge little. Not so with this book, in which I had fun learning interesting, documented facts, and gaining insights that bring puzzle pieces together. Ms. Olson shows how Mrs. Clinton - not James Carville - conceived the notion of the political campaign as war. All is fair, including hiring private investigators to dig up dirt, and barraging the opponent publicly with assertions that will hurt, but which need not be true. Witness accounts disclose the Clintons' callous, sometimes savage, treatment of subordinates. There are illustrations of paranoia in the White House. In fact, Olson added to my knowledge of virtually every Clinton scandal. I especially enjoyed learning who and what Harold Ickes is. Olson shows how several contemporary Clinton practices were learned from past experience. An example is "triangulation." As governor of Arkansas, Clinton was confronted with a federal court decision that left him no choice but to overhaul the state's school system. But doing so would require a tax hike, which would be tough to sell. Clinton put his wife in charge. After an extensive "listening tour," she proposed mandatory teacher testing and removing incompetent teachers as part of the tax hike bill. The voters liked the idea and gave Clinton his tax increase, all of which would go to schools. The teachers were outraged by the testing, but as time passed they saw that their jobs were safe, and that they could safely resume supporting Bill Clinton, for Mrs. Clinton had made sure very few incompetent teachers were fired, and the teachers saw new tax revenue flowing to their schools. Clinton triangulation produced form, but not substance. Arkansas school system's national ranking declined with Hillary in charge. There's lots more; just get the book. Overall, Ms. Olson illustrates that Mrs. Clinton is not the nice lady the media strives to portray. Rather, Ms. Olson asserts, Ms. Clinton is more Nixonian than Nixon, except that Ms. Clinton lacks Nixon's statesmanship and conscience.
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Summary: WOW! What a read!
Review: This was a real eye opener and so fascinating I read it in less than a day. Professional journalists are no longer practicing their professions diligently or some of this stuff would have been outed sooner. Olson did a fine job of presenting details with references and even provided footnotes of sources in the back of the book. Her style is straightforward though her anger at a First Lady with criminal tendencies, thoroughly explored for a time period going back almost twenty years, was obvious. This is the kind of researched and well written book on politicians I like to read - no matter the political party.
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