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The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President's Life after the White House.(BOOKS IN BRIEF)(Book review)
The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President's Life After the White House, by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. (Thomas Nelson, 292 pp., $26.99)
THE political attack book can be quite artful: So R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. has repeatedly proved, with his tomes assailing the larger-than-life personas of Bill and Hillary Clinton. In this, his fourth book on his favorite subjects, Tyrrell demonstrates that he has not lost his skills.
Certainly the most enjoyable parts of the book are the dashing turns of phrase the author sprinkles liberally throughout. He refers, for example, to the "ethical Renaissance that was the Clintons' 1990s"; to a "whoremonger from Macau" who gave generously to the Democratic party, and cavorted with Bill; to America's 42nd president "rutting ... atop some dim tart."
The "goatishness" of "this irrepressible ham" and "hayseed huckster" has long provoked Tyrrell's ire. By stepping away from the realm of the purely political, the author has made his book all the more amusing: We learn of Clinton's cholesterol level, his modest success in dieting, a problem with his "anatomy," his Harlem headquarters's displacement of a child-protection agency's office space, his abandonment of the presidential canine Buddy, and "tirades and flying objects directed by [Hillary] at Bill's defenseless skull." (One such "sulphurous eruption" caused "the cook, Miss Emma, to ...
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