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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Another memoir criticises the Bush White House
- M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The White House is bracing itself for yet another memoir that will present a critical picture of George W. Bush's administration, this time from a former US ambassador. Joe Wilson's 'The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and...
- Research articles 2004-04-29
- 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
- The Tell-All Tradition
- The publication of "Against all Enemies: Inside the White House's War on Terror"--the new tell-all memoir by Richard A. Clarke--has the White House on the defensive this week. In the book, Clarke, a top counterterrorism official held over from the Clinton years, charges that the Bush administration ignored clear warnings...
- Research articles 2004-03-24
- Daily News, New York, Publishing Column.
- By Paul D. Colford, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 16--Don't be surprised if Bill Clinton's White House memoir goes on sale in time for Father's Day. Publisher Knopf said the book remains unscheduled, but the word is...
- Research articles 2004-01-16
- once and future president?, The
- The once and future president?THE CLINTON WARS by Sidney Blumenthal Penguin, L25, pp. 822, ISBN 000670912042A friend of mine recently sat next to Bill Clinton at dinner. She was dazzled by his brilliance as he gave her a private tutorial on world problems from HIV/Aids to terrorism. Occasionally, she said,...
- Research articles 2003-06-14
- Memoir by Former First Lady Hillary Clinton Sells Well in McAllen, Texas.
- By Alma Walzer, The Monitor, McAllen, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 10--McALLEN, Texas--She is married to one of the most powerful men in the world and for eight years she had a hand in forming domestic policies and played a controversial...
- Research articles 2003-06-10
- Love her or hate her, Hillary manages to beat odds
- BOSTON -- Anyone searching for the line between a politician and a celebrity could have found it literally snaking out of a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Manhattan on Monday morning. Not long ago candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, dressed in trademark black pantsuit and pink shirt, worked this...
- Research articles 2003-06-13
- The Book on Bush
- The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, by David Frum (Random House, 303 pp., $25.95) Four decades ago, former White House speechwriter Emmett Hughes caused a stir in Washington with a thoughtful memoir of the Eisenhower presidency called The Ordeal of Power. The book was reflective...
- Research articles 2003-02-24
- East Wing: Politics, the Press, and a First Lady: a Memoir. (book review)
- By Mary Finch Hoyt. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2001. 242 pp. With a title such as this one, the reader expects to learn a lot about the political machinations from the perspective of the White House's East Wing. Yet the reader must be patient for almost ...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- Hillary watch
- No Probe-lem. The Justice Department, through the U.S. attorney in New York, has declined to file charges in the case alleging that President Clinton granted clemency to four Hasidic Jews after their tiny New York state community voted almost unanimously for his wife in the 2000 senatorial race. Although other...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Party Guy: The barren ex-presidency of Bill Clinton
- As he began his last year in office, Bill Clinton also began a long series of farewell interviews about his presidency and his plans for life after the White House. Of course he would write a book and make a living, Clinton often said, but his true goal was something...
- Research articles 2002-03-11
- MY AFFAIR WITH CLINTON: An Intellectual Memoir. - Review - book review
- MY AFFAIR WITH CLINTON: An Intellectual Memoir by Benjamin R. Barber W.W. Norton, $24.95 BENJAMIN BARBER'S VERY NICE book offers insight into Bill Clinton, the wonk. A Rutgers professor known for smart, interesting policy books like McWorld v. Jihad, a study of globalism, Barber was something of a hanger-on...
- Research articles 2001-07-01
- Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay / Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary
- Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay. Edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger. (Carbondale and Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. Pp. 416. Paper, $22.95) Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary. By William 0....
- Research articles 2000-10-01
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