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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Impeachment of the President

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I found this to be a fun and quick read. The topic is complex, yet it is easily broken down into the essential points, referencing the historical, political and people issues that are part of the biggest soap opera playing right now.

I was pleasantly surprised to see real discussions of the players involved, above the two dimensional roles we tend to give them. And it was done with humor, pathos, and lightness.

The more involved work was made very easy to 'digest' and put the entire impeachment process in perspective. This has made the news at night so much more enjoyable now that I have a feel for this whole matter, the stakes involved for the President, Starr, the Inquiry Panel, and those other people whose names we now know.

I've recommended the book to several friends. And attorneys. And my own pundit friends. Whether it's for perspective and information, or just some of the most interesting quotes, scandals and personal quirks previously not known, this book was a great read.

I have just finished reading The Complete Idiot's Guide to theImpeachment of the President. I was anxious to know more and makesense of all of the media mess, but found the newspapers and the television reports so predjudice in their condemnations. I found this book in the bookstore, and felt it was just what I was looking for to help sort things out. The authors brought the evidence to light in a clear and concise manner without beating around the bush. Unfortunately, that sort of hard hitting, non-bias fact finding, isnt what a lot of people want to hear. I found the book well thought out and very straight forward. I also found it to be an easy read that finally made sense of all of the confusing media mess. I would recommend this book to any student of political science or the lay person wanting to know more. I give this book four stars! END

Fair and balanced, this book looks at the impeachment process through an analytical eye.

I liked it a lot. I thought the authors did a good job of presenting both sides of the story. That it very occasionally tilts in Clinton's favor only reflects what most people think about this case. The authors pretty much slam Clinton, Starr and Congress equally. Easy to read and fun too.

My husband and I read the Complete Idiot's guide about the impeachment of the President of United States. We have disagreed about issues surrounding this subject for months. We decided to read the book together and discuss it as we went along. The authors spoke volumes to the issues giving my husband and I plenty of points to discuss. We enjoyed the book very much and have passed it along to our friends. We hope these two authors will continue to write more books along the same vein...we look forward to reading more.

I was dissappointed. I wasn't that great

Very insightful inquiry into the instrinsic nature of the execution of leaders in our post-modern world.

I particularly enjoyed the highly refined review of Ken Starr's report, a report which our leaders ignore. This book clearly illustrates that our congressman, who will undoubtedly shirk their constitutional duty to dethrone President Clinton, are little better than he in terms of duty to their country.

This book is clearly not written for the supporters of Ms. Lewinsky. She is quite clearly identified as the dunce's dunce.

If our representatives actually do what they're supposed to do, I may read this book.

My summary says it all. A liberal democrat -- see the author bio -- gives the official party line.

A disgrace for a supposedly reutable publisher.

It is also out of date now.

The title of this book turns out to be a good deal more descriptive than one might believe. Take what the authors have to say about the death of Deputy White House Counsel, Vincent W. Foster. This is from the heart of their discussion on pages 153 and 154:

"The [Vincent Foster] death was reported as a suicide, but many Clinton bashers still don't believe it, even though numerous investigations have so concluded.

"Even Ken Starr has ruled it a suicide. His report on Foster's death concluded that Foster was seriously depressed about his work at the White House, specifically the Travelgate 'crisis,' took a revolver from a closet in his home, placed it in an oven mitt, and on the afternoon of July 20, drove to a Virginia park and shot himself.

"The report contained new forensic details that refuted the conspiracy theories that surrounded Foster's death (more on those in a bit). As part of the investigation Starr consulted renowned medical and forensic experts, including Henry C. Lee, a crime expert made famous in the O. J. Simpson trial, who determined that the condition of the body and other physical evidence unequivocally demonstrated that Foster shot himself. Alan L. Berman, an expert in the field on suicide, found that 'to a 100-percent degree of medical certainty, the death of Vincent Foster was a suicide.'"

Surely it would take a person of low mental wattage to believe that a psychologist such as Dr. Berman could pronounce upon the "medical certainty" of anything, much less upon a person's addled mental state, the principal evidence for which is the writing in an obviously forged note.

The authors, as we see, draw heavily upon the final report on Foster's death by Kenneth Starr. That would mean that they would have to have obtained a copy to read. Having done that they could not have helped but notice that it was accompanied by a 20-page addendum, ordered included by the three judges who appointed Starr, over Mr. Starr's strenuous objections. The addendum is a letter by the lawyer for aggrieved witness, Patrick Knowlton. That letter, ignored by the national news media, using publicly-available evidence, utterly destroys the suicide conclusion. The complete story is available from FBICover-up.com.

The "demolished" "conspiracy theories" are red herrings put out by phony right-wing critics, and these authors would most dishonestly have us believe that they constitute the sum total of the reasons to reject the cover-up story of suicide.

They really do take us for idiots.