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- What Happened? How Should I Know?
- The memoirs of ex-Bush figures tend to follow a loose formula: take a slap at the old boss—gently or not so gently—then balance the tough love with some tender words. But former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s new memoir? It’s more like a right hook to the jaw. A...
- Research articles 2008-06-09
- Obama's Empty Rhetoric Will Fail Him in Office
- That CINC-ing Feeling Barack Obama's tent-revival rhetoric stirs his followers' emotions. But in them there is a disturbing lack of the usual tools of leadership that may indicate a disqualification to serve as Commander-in-Chief. Great leaders have to be great communicators, not just orators. Throughout history, they have...
- Research articles 2008-03-10
- US Senator Kennedy in eight-million-dollar memoir deal: reports
- NEW YORK AFP — Senator Edward Kennedy, the elder statesman of the US political clan scarred so often by tragedy, is to publish his memoirs in a deal reportedly worth eight million dollars. The reported advance would vault the younger brother of president John F. Kennedy to the top...
- Research articles 2007-11-27
- Ex-Bush aide says he was misled
- Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a memoir that he unintentionally misled the public about the leak of a CIA operative's name because of misinformation given to him by President Bush, political adviser Karl Rove and other top officials. A three-paragraph excerpt from the book...
- Research articles 2007-11-21
- Mexico's Fox mocks Bush in memoir
- WASHINGTON AFP — Vicente Fox, known for his candid talk when he was Mexico's president, speaks his mind when describing several world personalities including US President George W. Bush in his memoir that went on sale in the United States this week. "My first impression of George W. Bush...
- Research articles 2007-10-06
- Wofford inspired and 'captivated'
- At the top of his current "to do" list is an errand Harris Wofford dreads. The former Pennsylvania senator has to tell Hillary Rodham Clinton that he is backing Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. "If Barack doesn't get it, I will be an enthusiastic...
- Research articles 2007-02-18
- Newsmakers | Refunds to come for 'Million Little Pieces'
- James Frey, who admitted that his best-selling, Oprah-endorsed memoir, A Million Little Pieces, was largely fabricated, and his publisher Random House will give refunds to readers, the New York Times reported yesterday. The agreement, which still must be approved by a judge, settles a lawsuit brought by readers who said...
- Research articles 2006-09-08
- Bill Clinton's closet full of skeletons: former FBI chief
- NEW YORK AFP — An endless stream of scandals surrounding former US president Bill Clinton's White House years made him the constant target of FBI investigations, according to former FBI director Louis Freeh. "The problem was with Bill Clinton -- the scandals and the rumored scandals, the incubating ones...
- Research articles 2005-10-06
- Enter the 'Mayhem Magnet'
- The Department of Homeland Security is a bureaucratic nightmare. Cobbled together out of 22 government agencies with 180,000 employees, it was guaranteed to generate epic turf struggles. Well-meaning and decent, but maybe a little too nice, the first secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, always seemed slightly overwhelmed by his...
- Research articles 2004-12-13
- Clinton makes changes to British version of memoirs for legal protection: report
- NEW YORK AFP ? Former US president Bill Clinton reportedly made changes to the British edition of his memoirs to protect himself from that country's much tougher libel laws. The New York Times reported the changes were made to about a dozen paragraphs of "My Life," most of which...
- Research articles 2004-07-24
- Interview: 'So people might understand why'
- CHICAGO -- Bill Clinton isn't sure he would have ever told his wife and daughter about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky if Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr hadn't uncovered it. "I think that whether I would have ever said anything to my family or not, I...
- Research articles 2004-06-22
- The Clinton Book
- Presidential memoirs are usually ho-hum affairs. But Bill Clinton was no ordinary president, and his memoir, the much-anticipated "My Life," is no ordinary book: a historic document (Clinton was the first two-term Democratic president since FDR), the Alfred A. Knopf book is also a publishing-industry phenomenon. "My Life" isn't officially...
- Research articles 2004-06-19
- Kicked to the couch: Clinton talks about the Monica days
- LONDON AFP ? Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky dominated the publicity blitz in London ahead of the release of his memoirs, with the former US president snapping at an interviewer for pressing the issue but admitting to another that it had left him sleeping on the White House couch....
- Research articles 2004-06-21
- Memoir puts Clinton back in the spotlight
- NEW YORK AFP ? Bill Clinton fever gripped New York ahead of the release of the former president's autobiography, whose scandal-fuelled content looks set to shoot it straight to the top of the bestseller lists. The midnight launch of the 957-page "My Life" has taken on the trappings of...
- Research articles 2004-06-21
- Clintonmania: boon or bane for Kerry?
- WASHINGTON, AFP ? Former president Bill Clinton, buoyed by huge interest in his memoirs, is champing at the bit to campaign for Democratic heir John Kerry but the jury is still out as to whether he will be an asset or liability. Clinton's vice president Al Gore kept him...
- Research articles 2004-06-20
- Clinton memoir 'eye-crossingly dull': New York Times
- NEW YORK AFP ? "Sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull," was the verdict of the New York Times on the publishing event of the year -- Bill Clinton's 957-page memoir "My Life." In a particularly scathing review, the Times denigrated the book as a mirror of Clinton's presidency, with...
- Research articles 2004-06-20
- Clinton offers his "Life"; public wants Monica
- NEW YORK AFP ? Bill Clinton's memoirs run to 957 pages, but the majority of readers rushing to buy the book on Tuesday will be focusing on one particular section indexed somewhere under the letter "L." The war in Kosovo, the Middle East peace process and Somalia -- all...
- Research articles 2004-06-20
- Bill Clinton finishes memoirs
- NEW YORK AFP ? After two years and 900 pages, former president Bill Clinton has finally finished his long-awaited memoirs, which are expected to go on sale next month, his publisher announced. "The writing was completed late last week, and right now we are finishing up the editing process,"...
- Research articles 2004-05-11
- The Books: The Kiss-and-Tell Club
- In 1939 Raymond Moley, a onetime member of Franklin Roosevelt's "brain trust," published a memoir charging that his ex-boss had been ruinously captured by leftists. When Republicans used Moley's tract to attack FDR, the president privately muttered that Moley had "kissed a-- and told." Ronald Reagan's former budget director...
- Research articles 2004-04-05
- Hughes memoir backs Bush and Iraq war
- AUSTIN, Texas -- Presidential adviser Karen Hughes kicked off a national book tour Sunday with unblinking support for President Bush and the war in Iraq. Speaking about her memoir "Ten Minutes from Normal," Hughes said she was upset by recent claims from former White House counterterrorism chief...
- Research articles 2004-03-29
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