Synopses & Reviews
No public figure in contemporary life has elicited more polarized reactions than Hillary Rodham Clinton. The first presidential spouse who pursued a major policymaking role, the beleaguered first lady has been a heroine and role model to her feminist alliesand#151;and a malevolent, power-mad shrew to her conservative foes. andlt;BRandgt;Now David Brock, America's most controversial journalist, takes on the most controversial first lady in history, producing a boldly incisive yet surprisingly sensitive portrait. A political biography of the first order, andlt;Iandgt;The Seduction of Hillary Rodhamandlt;/Iandgt; is the story of one strong-willed woman's struggle to maintain her personal and political integrity in the face of powerfully seductive forces, including the appeal of Bill Clinton, a charismatic, talented, but deeply flawed man who may have been both the best and the worst thing that ever happened to her.
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Barbara Amiel andlt;Iandgt;The Wall Street Journalandlt;/Iandgt; "Nothing I have read to date explains so well...how, under the cover of a respectable social goal, [institutions] can be used to manipulate people who are otherwise nonideological into supporting a radicalism intent on reengineering every aspect of American society."
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Judy Bass andlt;Iandgt;The Philadelphia Inquirerandlt;/Iandgt; [T] he most illuminating book published to date on the first lady.
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Hilton Kramer andlt;Iandgt;New York Postandlt;/Iandgt; A brilliant account of...how the Clintons as a team succeeded in bringing the political radicalism of the 1960s to power in Washington in the 1990s
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Newsweek [A] nuanced portrait of the first lady.
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andlt;Iandgt;Newsweekandlt;/Iandgt; [A] nuanced portrait of the first lady.
About the Author
David Brock'sandlt;/bandgt; hard-hitting journalism has cast him as "the Bob Woodward of the right' according to the andlt;Iandgt;Washington Postandlt;/Iandgt;. He is a writer for the andlt;Iandgt;American Spectatorandlt;/Iandgt; and the bestselling author of The Real Anita Hill (Free Press, 1993). He lives in Washington, D.C.