Synopses & Reviews
The fight over the Clinton legacy has just begun. Bill will spend the rest of his days defending it and Hillary will run for president on it.
In this shattering indictment, National Review editor Rich Lowry exposes the Clinton legacy for what it is spin, lies, and failure.
Lowry tells the story of how a politician with grandiose ambitions became a cautious, poll-driven placeholder, of how a president who yearned to confront a great international crisis cringed and shrank from one the threat of Islamic terrorism when it arrived.
It is a tale of the arrogance of a generation, of the folly of an era, and of the weakness of one man. Lowry describes how Clinton's flawed character his dishonesty, his egotism, and his moral cowardice suffused everything he did and primed him for failure as president.
Lowry digs to get at the deeper assumptions and ideas that were the foundations of failed Clinton policies, making this book a sustained intellectual assault on contemporary liberalism. It is passionate and factual, incisive and unsparing and altogether devastating. Bill and Hillary Clinton don't want you to read this book.
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National Review editor-in-chief and syndicated columnist Rich Lowry offers a shocking indictment of how the moral drift and the defense and intelligence build-down of eight years of Clintonism made the disaster of September 11 almost inevitable and hamstrung President George W. Bush's own attempts to defeat global terrorism.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-453) and index.
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Richard Lowry explores the real importance of the Clinton years--the Clinton administration appeasing and ignoring the ever-growing threats to American security from hostile regimes and parties, rogue states, and global terrorist networks. Lowry offers the first sweeping-and stunning assessment of what the Clinton era really meant and means for America.
Table of Contents
The content of his character -- Part one. Politics & policy: His presidency: shrinking the office -- The economy: the 1980s, Part 2 -- Welfare & crime: a conservative triumph -- "The children:": nanny-in-chief -- Part two. Scandal & law: Investigation: Watergate's revenge -- Sex: grope first, smear later -- Impeachment: an indelible stain -- Domestic security: queen of the bunny planet -- Part three. Foreign policy: The world: McGovern without the conscience -- The wars: cowardice-at-arms -- The Middle east: the price of illusion -- Terrorism: losing the war.