Boy Clinton: The Political Biography [Paperback]

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. (Author)

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Publication Date: September 25, 1997

Documents the scandals and embarrassments that have hounded the Clinton Administration since inauguration.

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R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. is the editor-in-chief at the American Spectator. Boy Clinton is his full-length diatribe against the current President of the United States of America. According to Tyrrell, Clinton is "so ambitious, so inexhaustible, so political, as to be a freak even by the standards of Arkansas" (take that, Arkansas) and has run "the most corrupt and incompetent presidency in American history" (and that, Richard Nixon). Clinton is not the only target of Tyrrell's wrath. Ross Perot is another "freak," and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard is a place where "has-been public figures pulled on their chins and sipped sherry." Depending on where you stand, you'll either find Boy Clinton a scream, or it will make you want to scream. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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The chief target is Mr. Clinton, the chief complaint is that he is not honest (and not conservative) and the chief goal, altogether within Mr. Tyrrell's reach, is to prompt the Clinton war room to go ballistic. -- New York Times, David M. Shribman --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 302 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc. (September 25, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895264056
• ISBN-13: 978-0895264053
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,041,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Scathing, Snide attack on the Clintons, December 24, 2000

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Jeffrey Leach (Omaha, NE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boy Clinton: The Political Biography (Hardcover)

This is one of the weirdest books I've read in a long time. Written by R. Emmett Tyrrell of American Spectator fame, this has to be one of the most scathing attacks on Bill and Hillary Clinton ever written. I gave it five stars because it kept me in open mouthed awe throughout the entire read, as well as illiciting huge belly laughs over some of Tyrrell's word play, which can be truly brilliant. This book isn't a knee to the Clinton groin, it's a shotgun blast to the Clinton groin.

The book starts out with the L.D. Brown story. Brown was a close confidant of Clinton when he was Governor Clinton of Arkansas. Brown, with Clinton's help, attained a job with the CIA. Brown quickly became entangled in the Barry Seal/Mena drug trafficking operation. Brown is an important figure because he can link Clinton into the drug operations. This part of the book is essentially the same account that can be found in Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton". If Brown is to be believed, this is a devastating indictment of Bill Clinton and sets the tone for Tyrrell's examination of the Clintons.

The rest of the book traces Bill's ascension to the White House. We get an account of Bill and his education at Oxford and Yale, where he quickly hooked up with what Tyrrell calls the "Coat and Tie Radicals", which are those New Left hippies that smoked dope and engaged in Marxist thought on the weekends, but spent the rest of their time carefully cultivating their public image so as to land good positions in government, law and corporate America. Tyrrell shows that during the time between the 1960's and the 1990's, these Commies never changed their attitudes or beliefs. They simply waited through the Reagan years for their chance to impose their warped values on America. Their beliefs can be summed up in what Tyrrell calls the "kultursmog", a choking mess of touchy-feely and Marxist/Socialist ideas that clouds traditional American values. Tyrrell continues his assault on the Clintons by showing their financial scams, their rabid pursuit of power over everything else, how they are products of the corrupt "Ole Boy" network of Arkansas politics, and how the first year of the Clinton presidency, 1993, was an utter disaster for America. Tyrrell outlines all of the scandals and flubs that made the Clinton presidency the most corrupt and inept administration in American history. Tyrrell also looks at Clinton's childhood, throwing aspersions on Clinton's mother Virginia, who is portrayed as a loose woman without any morals. He also points out that we can't be sure who Clinton's father really is.

A separate chapter offers a treatment of Hillary Clinton and reveals the true colors of our illustrious First Lady. She is exposed as a closet Communist who clerked for a well known Marxist lawyer who defended the Black Panther Party. Hillary also edited a journal at Yale that was extremely hostile to authority figures. One edition depicted police officers as racist pigs who should be killed. Hillary's infamous behavior is also closely detailed. Apparently, our First Lady has a temper problem, and likes to heave objects in fits of volcanic anger.

Tyrrell explodes the Clinton mythos and shows them to be two black holes in power suits. The portrait painted here reveals them to be grasping, petty, manipulative power seekers without a shred of decency. They dragged America through the mud, and the country will forever be stained by the Clinton legacy. And this was written in 1996, well before the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal broke.

It's important to note that Tyrrell uses an astounding vocabulary throughout the book. Words such as foozle, avuncular, and lumpen predominate. The style is also extremely snide and can get pretty ugly. Tyrrell pulls no punches in this treatise, and liberals will scream bloody murder while reading this, if they can finish it in the first place. It is, without a doubt, a polemic, and should be read accordingly. I have to give it five stars for its sheer audacity. I'll read it again.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ARKANSAS-GATE DEFINED, January 3, 1999

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This review is from: Boy Clinton: The Political Biography (Paperback)

SO MANY CRIMES IT IS ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE. EXCEPT THAT IT IS SO FACTUAL. In-depth Reporting that the Liberal News Media can't seem to be able to do. The author, R. Emmett Tyrrell uncovers Crimes and Indiscretions in Arkansas that would make most Americans cringe at the thought of this immoral, immature man in charge of anything!!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars (he) don't know much about history..., July 30, 2008

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This review is from: Boy Clinton: The Political Biography (Hardcover)

The cover photo is worth five stars. Alas: you can't judge a book by its cover.

A cursory reading of the chapter on Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose name is (predictably) lampooned by the author, revealed these gems:

"I have detected no evidence that Rodham experienced marijuana, either in brownies or small pipes, as was the fashion for some college gals in that period. Nor have I detected any other coping mechanisms enhancing her student days, such as LSD or certain mushroom concoctions favored by some of her Coat and Tie radical associates."

"Upon being welcomed into the young women's bedrooms, some of the young men, those unfettered by Christian chastity, attempted what young men attempt when placed in the vicinity of a nubile cutie's bed and lingerie chest."

"She arrived at the mansion overweight, wore her hair long and unkempt, and went without makeup or perfumes. Her spectacles were as thick as bullet-proof glass, and the lenses were encased in impressively ugly frames."

Yawn.

Mr. Tyrrell excels in meanness, pettiness, innuendo, and faulty logic. If there are any facts in his book, it's hard to say what form they'll finally have when a reader succeeds in chiseling them out of his prose.