The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary ClintonWhen 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. |
Contents
CHAPTER 1 The Ghost of Lee Atwater | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 A Crazy Person Like Larry Nichols | 14 |
CHAPTER 3 Jean Lewiss October Surprise | 30 |
CHAPTER 4 The Larry Case Tapes | 46 |
CHAPTER 5 Justice Jim Rides Again | 67 |
CHAPTER 6 A Pig in a Poke | 83 |
CHAPTER 7 The Scandal Industrys Secret Sugar Daddies | 99 |
CHAPTER 8 A Truly Independent Prosecutor | 116 |
CHAPTER 11 Senator DAmatos Long Goodbye | 183 |
CHAPTER 12 The President of the United States Is Not on Trial | 216 |
CHAPTER 13 All They Wanted to Talk About Was Women | 256 |
CHAPTER 14 Spinning the Widows Web | 277 |
CHAPTER 15 Impeachment for Fun and Profit | 308 |
CHAPTER 16 The Bastard Should Be Exposed | 323 |
Afterword | 369 |
Sources | 375 |
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