A Clinton Christmas Reader (with apologies to the New York Times)
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 27, No. 2 / FEBRUARY 1994 gilt Xtur cork ants Book Review December 14, 1997 Section 7 Copyright © 1997 Murdoch Newspapers A Clinton Christmas Reader A potpourri...
...Illustrated, 376 pp...
...A s 1995 began, most observers believed that Mr...
...And there will be many more volumes...
...I t seems impossible to believe that anyone could add to the volumes of newsprint that have analyzed the rise and fall of Bill Clinton...
...Still, before the publication of this book, many observers had hoped the former President would provide new insights into the scandal that engulfed his administration in 1995...
...Illustrated, 216 pp...
...Clinton campaign strategist James Carville is preparing a deeply personal account of his brief marriage to former George Bush strategist Mary Matalin...
...ON MY OWN Life in the White House—and Beyond...
...Stephanopoulos subsequently married actress Marlee Matlin...
...H illary Rodham remains the most intriguing—and perplexing—woman in American public life...
...tergate) and which led to his resignation in December 1995, remain a mystery...
...For example, the former President shows no rancor toward Senator Joseph Biden, whose Senate Judiciary Committee prepared the impeachment action that preceded Mr...
...Their announcement that they would raise the girl as if she were deaf—despite her perfect hearing—set off a storm of ridicule and forced Stephanopoulos and Matlin into an exile from which they have only recently emerged...
...Warning Seins, Shoshanna Lonstein's account of her ill-fated affair with comedian Jerry Seinfeld...
...The American Spectator February 1994 And the book's final chapter shares the former president's pain during the 1996 divorce action brought against him by Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...New York: Random House...
...Clinton's resignation...
...No fewer than five books documenting the travails of the recently departed Clinton and Gore Administrations are now on the shelves...
...the couple had a daughter earlier this year...
...But he became the earliest victim of Whitewatergate and is now facing trial on charges of lying to Congress...
...Instead, Mr...
...59 IN THE LOOP My Years with Bill and Hillary Clinton...
...Clinton dwells at length on what is generally believed by policy experts to be his greatest triumph: the establishment, after several false starts, of a stable democracy in Haiti...
...The book is strongest when it deals with personalities...
...And finally, former Secretary of State Warren Christopher is writing his own volume on the Clinton years—it is said to include Mr...
...Featured in the motion picture The War Room, the object of national fan clubs, he seemed headed for great things...
...Although implicated as a partner in the real estate deal that led to the crisis, she has so far managed to avoid prosecution by claiming that her remaining papers are protected by the doctrine of executive privilege...
...The author of the most ambitious social welfare proposal ever made, she retreated from a policy role during Whitewatergate, instead joining several former First Ladies in a nationwide crusade for improved child nutrition...
...New York: Alfred A. Knopf $45...
...By George Stephanopoulos...
...His brief chapter on Whitewatergate exists primarily to direct blame away from himself and at nearly every member of his Administration, with the exception of former Attorney General Janet Reno, who attempted to accept responsibility for any wrongdoing...
...L ast year, a Federal judge offered former White House counsel Nussbaum immunity from Whitewatergate prosecution on the condition that he reveal the contents of the missing portion of a suicide note left by White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster in 1993...
...The American Spectator February 1994...
...By Hillary Rodham...
...The Bengals: An NFL Dynasty/7 58 The American Spectator February 1994 star-crossed Presidency since that of Richard Nixon...
...Former President Gore has signed a $2 million contract with Simon & Schuster for the story of his one-year presidency...
...Christopher's account of an alleged incident in which the embattled President asked him to kneel and pray in a White House bedroom at the height of Whitewatergate...
...New York: Random House...
...Rodham, now Streisand Professor of Law and Public Policy at Yale Law School, writes movingly of her divorce from the former President and the challenges of beginning a new life...
...A reader's guide: SEASON OF CHANGE The White House Years...
...I t seems hard to remember the days in early 1993 when George Stephanopoulos—the slight, bespectacled Rhodes Scholar—seemed the very essence of a Washington sex symbol...
...HOME AGAIN A Personal Journey...
...Clinton's resignation...
...At the time, most observers believed that the note's missing text would somehow solve the riddle of Whitewatergate...
...In retrospect, it seems hardly surprising that Gergen drew scorn from both Democrats 60 and Republicans when—at the precise moment that Whitewatergate began to spin out of control—he announced he was leaving the White House to become president of Walt Disney Company's American history theme park in northern Virginia (a decision that stunned producers of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, who had saved his old spot in hopes Gergen would return...
...Together, they sketch a fascinating portrait of the troubled players in the most Byron York is a television producer and writer living in Washington, D.C...
...As with the former President's account, readers looking for a glimpse into the real workings of the White House during the Clinton years will be sorely disappointed by the former First Lady's book...
...By David Gergen...
...By Bernard Nussbaum...
...New York: Basic Books...
...For many readers, the most interesting part of this rather dry account of the Clinton years will be the description of his breakup with actress Jennifer Grey (shortly before she won an Oscar for her performance in the motion picture Twilight of the Golds...
...Likely best sellers: Working Class Hero: My Years with Liz, Larry Fortensky's oddly touching memoir of his marriage to the late movie star...
...Earlier this year, Stephanopoulos was recruited by executive Barry Diller to develop reality programming at QVC/Paramount...
...Dick Armey's successful effort to defeat the health care reform plan...
...Jerry Seper, whose reporting on Whitewatergate for the Washington Times won a Pulitzer Prize, will publish his account of the scandal, All the President's Friends, early next year...
...instead, Ms...
...She rarely mentions the defeat of her health care plan...
...Unfortunately, readers looking for enlightenment will not find it here...
...WAR ROOM, BOARD ROOM A 1990s Odyssey...
...and Sayonara Provence, Peter Mayle's tale of leaving the crowded South of France for life in a small Japanese village...
...For many Americans, the complex series of financial misdeeds that began with the White-water affair (and became known, inevitably, as WhitewaThe former President shows no rancor toward Senator Joseph Biden, whose Senate Judiciary Committee prepared the impeachment action that preceded Mr...
...However, when Nussbaum complied, Judge Webster Hubbell ordered the information sealed for 50 years, leaving scandalmongers—and the general public—stymied...
...Gergen, a veteran of the Nixon administration, would be invaluable to a chief executive fighting a scandal that threatened his presidency...
...The former President's book scarcely mentions the scandal, which started with a series of land deals and campaign contributions in the mid-1980's and resulted in a widespread White House cover-up in the 1990's...
...Illustrated, 427 pp...
...His statement in November, 1996 that he had always considered himself to be a conservative was widely believed to be an effort to ingratiate himself with the right-wing ideologues that President-elect Quayle had placed in charge of the transition team...
...By Bill Clinton...
...It was just the first of several unexpected foreign policy accomplishments that earned him high praise abroad even as he sank into one domestic crisis after another...
...For serious readers, however, this holiday season offers more substantial treats...
...The man once known as the health care wizard of the Clinton administration, Ira Magaziner, is writing his side of the bewildering turn of events that led him to denounce Hillary Rodham Clinton and join Rep...
...And with no note, this seems hardly worth reading...
...New York: Simon & Schuster...
...2 / FEBRUARY 1994 gilt Xtur cork ants Book Review December 14, 1997 Section 7 Copyright © 1997 Murdoch Newspapers A Clinton Christmas Reader A potpourri from a fallen administration By Byron York A s in most holiday publishing seasons, the offerings for Christmas 1997 go heavy on celebrities and romance...
...Illustrated, 329 pp...
...Illustrated, 1,635 pp...
...Now living in Ottawa, where he is helping the Canadian Government reprivatize the country's health care system, his memoir, Changing Sides, is scheduled for release next fall...
Vol. 27 • February 1994 • No. 2
