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Summary: the truth--plain and non-simple
Review: all the facts are here but my criticism of hitchens' style of writing is that the reader has to be very familiar with his subject matter already otherwise the authour overwhelms you with so much scathing information about his subject matter. Christopher is an important journalist but after a while youy dont hear him anymore because he is so vengeful. I wish he could incorporate a more emotional style of writing so that I could 'feel' what he 'feels'.
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Summary: Truth trumps idologicy
Review: Chris Hitchens is not only a brilliant writer he is an incredibly honest one. You might disagree with his premise (The Missionary Position) or you might think he doesn't have enough evidence to support his final conclusion (The Trial of Henry Kissinger) but no honest reader can state that he does not come to these conclusions honestly and based on facts and his conclusions from them.This book was his first step away from the left but as he would say in it, the left stepped away from its principles by supporting Clinton who used and abused those values which Hitchens believes in. Reading this book years after all the hullabaloo has died down gives a great insight into the operation of the Clintons now and the position of Hitchens now. His basic theme is that Clinton husband and wife were both giving lip service to the left while giving actions to the right based on their own advancement. He asks the question out loud stating bluntly why does the right hate Clinton so since he advanced so much of the agenda. I think it is precisely for the same reason why he did. He correctly points out that those in power on the right lets many things go due to either political fear or advantage, it is quite similar to the California situation today. As always the book is short and interesting. Don't read it at bedtime. It is not long enough to convince you to put it down till tomorrow yet too full to finish quickly and absorb it all. Read it before you read the other defenses and attacks on the Clintons. It is the straightest one of the batch.
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Summary: A fascinating and shocking look at the Clinton era
Review: Christopher Hitchens book on the Clinton presidency should be compulsory reading for anyone interested in modern politics. Hitchens gives a searing critique of the Clintons and the way they have practised the art of politics from their days in the governor's mansion in Arkansas up to Hilary's senate campaign in 2000. This book gets three stars because while Hitchens does make a credible case for Clinton being not only the liar we now know that he is, but also a rapist, he shows an unrelenting hostility to the Clintons that seems to me to go beyond reasonable judgement and amounts to a prejudice (although not without reasonable foundation). This is not a balanced and fair account of Bill Clinton's time in the White House that should be considered definitive (as Edward Said has said), but rather a more or less reliable account of the worst that can be said of this chapter in American history. There is more that can be said in Clinton's favour (at least as a president, if not a human being) than is said here, and this should always be kept in mind by anybody who reads this book, whatever their own political affiliation. Hitchens style is sharp and erudite, and it is a good read, but one feels that it is not the whole story.
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Summary: SUPERB BOOK ON THE CLINTON SCOURGE
Review: Confirmed leftist Christopher Hitchens has penned one of the more definitive books on the dissembling first family. Also highly recommended are the late Barbara Olsen's two books on the Clintons. Both authors are thorough and enlightening, but Hitchens rules the roost when it comes to acidic, sarcastic prose! He writes with great style and proves above all that the idea of a Clinton with values is indeed an oxymoron. Excellent book, highly recommended for intelligent, discriminating readers.
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Summary: Short, concise funny but deadly.
Review: Even before this book, Hitchens would appear on news panels representing the far left on PBS when Mc Neil was still on hand to present balance. I always enjoyed his comments as they combined left wing ideology, sarcasm, wit and humor. A sense of humor is sadly missing on the left. I have never seen a time when good people could be forced to drink the kool-aid for party over county. I guess this is why Hitchens is a good lefty, but a really bad democrat. He probably voted green. Hitchens was not alone as a lefty who did not like the Clintons. The final straw must have been when Clinton bombed an aspirin factory 3 days after learning it was not a WMD plant, for the sole reason that he needed a distraction from the latest scandal. The case is made here that all was politics for the Clintons and the word of Bill or Hillary meant nothing. The only abiding rule was, what will keep Bill in office and get Hillary elected after him. This is not the best of the Clinton expose books, but it is a small contribution in our understanding of what has happened to the political party that I, now a recovering democrat, supported for 20 years.
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Summary: Style no better than substance
Review: Hitchens style while appearing to be very academic and well researched has take a turn for the loosy-goosy. He intersperses far to much contemptuous language that hints at his obvious biases. This is the same man who managed to find something wrong with a saint... literally. He managed to drag mother Theresa through the mud and does the same with Bill Clinton. I don't understand why people call Hitchens "left leaning" I am not sure what he really is but he doesn't seem to be "left leaning" to me. He has some good arguments about why Clinton was a scoundrel. I am sure he could write the same about every president since Roosevelt though. Different scandals, same result. I would like to know... Does Hitch plan to write an equally scathing book about the Bush/Cheney regime? There is at least as much material already just three years into their reign.
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Summary: Didn't Want This Book To End
Review: I have never liked nor trusted Bill Clinton. As a registered independent, I wandered Washington DC in late November of 1992 with a mournful dread that a oversexed Boss Hogg was coming to stain the White House...and he did not disappoint! Now that he's gone (and Hillary plots to take over the world), I've read numerous books on the Clinton years and the very best--as well as the most damning--come from disillusioned liberals: SELL OUT, David Schippers' account of the impeachment (a Chicago Democrat who voted for Clinton twice), and HOW I ACCIDENTALLY JOINED THE VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY by the former-liberal Harry Stein.
And Christopher Hitchens' NO ONE LEFT TO LIE TO, my favorite.
No one can accuse these men of being frothing right-wing, Clinton-hating fanatics. Hitchens, who can heap contempt on either side of any issue, employs such a razor-sharp wit that I didn't want this book to end. I laughed out loud at his analysis of Al Gore's bizarre answer to a voter's question about Clinton's alleged rape of Juanita Broadderick.
Caustic, absurd, hilarious--I loved this book!
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Summary: Finally, a Left-Winger Who Admits to Clinton Corruption
Review: It is quite refreshing to see that honest liberals still exist. Christopher Hitchens, no friend of Hillary's imaginary "vast right wing conspiracy," takes great exception to the Clinton Era. And no, it's not just about sex. It's about rampant dishonesty and corruption - the selling of Commerce Department travel seats for campaign donations, renting of the Lincoln bedroom for re-election cash, selling of nuclear technology secrets in exchange for Beijing assistance in the 1996 re-election campaign, bombing of a poor country's aspirin factory to divert attention from personal problems, illegally releasing private information on citizens in order to discredit them, intimidating and threatening witnesses, obstructing justice, etc. etc. Hitchens confirms what the Right had been saying since 1993 - this is arguably the most corrupt administration in American history. It is refreshing to finally hear from someone on the left who isn't in the business of excusing and apologizing for this rampant corruption - to call a spade a spade. This book is for those who are interested in more than just economic prosperity - who are concerned about the long-term precedents set by this administration, which will undermine American democracy for many years to come. Those who insist on acknowledge no fault in this president, don't bother wasting time reading this book - it won't give you the warm and fuzzy needed to maintain your illusion that this is the "most ethical administration ever."
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Summary: No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family
Review: Leading American journalist Christopher Hitchens scrutinises the features of Bill Clinton's political methods, and argues that the Clinton machine might become a model for pseudo-democracy for the coming century.
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Summary: The truth, again and again and again
Review: The Clintons were quite simply the most disgusting awful, degrading people to ever sit in the white house. Hitchens who used to be a good little liberal, has finally seen the truht behind the new liberal value system, anmely that they will do whatever it takes to have power, sort of like Hitler and Stalin. Hitchens, who loves Orwell, has seen the pigs and knows that Clinton is no better then the dictators of Soviet russia. The Clintons took this country into the gutter, and forieghn countries loved it. Now liberals are whining that the world hates us. Wait, you mean blessed France and lovable China and the cute Iranians hate us, oh no. You cna judge us by our enemies, hitler hated us to, should we be worried? The CLintons and their followers made everyone laugh at us. Here they were renting out the white house, lying about what they had to drink at funraising events, lying about big things and little things, as if they just coulndt turn the lie switch off. They had no shame and Mr. Hitchens shows the havoc they reaked. How they lied to everyone from thier own allies, the gays, to the press to the courts, about everything from sex to money. WHat kind of people did we vote for(well I dint vote form them but you might have).
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