The Hunting of the President : the Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton / Joe Conason and Gene Lyons

Conason, Joe

ISBN 10: 0312245475 / ISBN 13: 9780312245474

Published by New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2000

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 413 pages; Description: xvii, 413 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Clinton, Bill, 1946- --Adversaries. Clinton, Hillary Rodham --Adversaries. Journalism --Political aspects --United States. Libel and slander --United States. Politics and government -- Biography. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hunting of the President : the Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton / Joe Conason and Gene Lyons
• Publisher: New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312245475
• ISBN 13: 9780312245474
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

When Hillary Clinton spoke of "a vast right-wing conspiracy" determined to bring down the president, many people dismissed the idea. Yet if the first lady's accusation was exaggerated, the facts that have since emerged point toward a covert and often concerted effort by Bill Clinton's enemies--abetted by his own reckless behavior--which led inexorably to impeachment. Clinton's foes launched a cascade of well-financed attacks that undermined American democracy and nearly destroyed the Clinton presidency.

In vivid prose, Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, two award-winning veteran journalists, identify the antagonists, reveal their tactics, trace the millions of dollars that subsidized them, and examine how and why mainstream news organizations aided those who were determined to bring down Bill Clinton, The Hunting of the President may very well be the All the President's Men of this political regime.

About the Author

Joe Conason is the national correspondent for the New York Observer, where he writes a political column that is distrubuted by the United Features Syndicate. He is also a contributing editor for Talk magazine and a contributer to Salon.com. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Harper's, The New Yorker, and many other publications.

Gene Lyons won the National Magazine Award in 1980. He has written extensively for Newsweek, Harper's The Nation, The New Review of Books, Texas Monthly, Entertainment Weekly, and many other magazines. His books include The Higher Illiteracy (University of Arkansas, 1988), Widow's Web (Simon & Schuster, 1993), and Fools for Scandal (Franklin Square, 1996). He writes a political column for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.