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Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton

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4 star:		(22)
3 star:		(8)
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1 star:		(19)

 

 

...What I found fascinating about this book was its verifiability. In every case where Olson reveals some particularly damning bit of information, she is impecable about tieing it to easily corroborated additional public documentation. What is compelling about this book is not so much that it tends to confirm the worst suspicions of many who feel that the Clintons have been a disaster for the American body politic, but that it illuminates the reasons why this has taken place. Olson, by the by, never stoops to cheap shots and is noticably quiet when it comes to Chelsea and Hillary's relationship with her. This book, taken in isolation, would be considered a most distasteful expose of an American personality. Unfortunately, we are all part of the continuing story of Hillary Clinton. This book is more of an explanation for why a member of the extended family is locked in the attic. A good book....whether you like Hillary or not!

It is easy to understand why all the reviews here are either five stars or one star. There is no middle ground here. This book is wonderfully written and contains very little rehashed material which at this point is very hard to do. The best part is the critical analysis of Hillary's past writings and how they expose a hidden political agenda. Olson's analysis of the First Lady's seemingly unaltered radical persuasion is convincingly demonstrated in this meticulously researched biography. This type of writing is not one star. One star is like trying to bury the many insights which this book magnificently exposes. Bravo Barbara!

After hearing Ms. Olson do a radio interview on the Straight Talk program, I was compelled to buy this book. I'm glad I did. It gave me insight to Hillary and helped me understand why she is running (or saying she is running) for Senate. I think the book does show a bias, but I am smart enough to read through that and get down to the facts, which she provides plenty of. Overall, a good book.

This book is unabashedly anti-Clinton. And why not? The media won't, so somebody has to reveal the unseemly motives and behaviors that incubate the scandals that regularly bubble up from the depths of this White House. That's where *Hell to Pay* comes in. It spendidly unveils facts and events that the media overlook.

There are other books about the Clintons. One (Brock's) is solid and factual, but a little ponderous to read. Others (Stephanopolis' and Isakoff's) are more compelling, but they divulge little. Not so with this book, in which I had fun learning interesting, documented facts, and gaining insights that bring puzzle pieces together.

Ms. Olson shows how Mrs. Clinton - not James Carville - conceived the notion of the political campaign as war. All is fair, including hiring private investigators to dig up dirt, and barraging the opponent publicly with assertions that will hurt, but which need not be true.

Witness accounts disclose the Clintons' callous, sometimes savage, treatment of subordinates. There are illustrations of paranoia in the White House. In fact, Olson added to my knowledge of virtually every Clinton scandal. I especially enjoyed learning who and what Harold Ickes is.

Olson shows how several contemporary Clinton practices were learned from past experience. An example is "triangulation." As governor of Arkansas, Clinton was confronted with a federal court decision that left him no choice but to overhaul the state's school system. But doing so would require a tax hike, which would be tough to sell. Clinton put his wife in charge. After an extensive "listening tour," she proposed mandatory teacher testing and removing incompetent teachers as part of the tax hike bill. The voters liked the idea and gave Clinton his tax increase, all of which would go to schools. The teachers were outraged by the testing, but as time passed they saw that their jobs were safe, and that they could safely resume supporting Bill Clinton, for Mrs. Clinton had made sure very few incompetent teachers were fired, and the teachers saw new tax revenue flowing to their schools. Clinton triangulation produced form, but not substance. Arkansas school system's national ranking declined with Hillary in charge.

There's lots more; just get the book. Overall, Ms. Olson illustrates that Mrs. Clinton is not the nice lady the media strives to portray. Rather, Ms. Olson asserts, Ms. Clinton is more Nixonian than Nixon, except that Ms. Clinton lacks Nixon's statesmanship and conscience.

While I'm no fan of Hillary Clinton, I wanted to read a biography that was neither a vitriolic diatribe, nor the usual puff piece. Hell to Pay filled the bill exactly. Very revealing. Recommend it highly

Finally, a woman who can recognize this fraud for what she is. This book was written to expose the duplicitous behavior that brought down the Clinton administration. Consider if you will that if Hillary hadn't hidden billing records and had been forthright about Whitewater and the multitude of other scandals, there wouldn't have been a special prosecutor and he wouldn't have found out about Monica and Billy Boy's obstruction of justice. This view comes from no one less than Chris Matthews, an honest liberal. If you want the truth you read this, if you want to idolize St. Hillary then read Sheehy's shallow account. If you want this book, order it here, because some bookstores are censoring it and hiding it from view.

Hell to Pay is a straight forward summation of the life of Hillary Clinton, presented unemotionally, as if by a prosecutor to a jury. (That's you, the reader.) Direct and revealing of "just the facts, mam", judgement is left to the reader. Broad in scope it does much to runravel a very tangled web. It's well worth the reading!

Buy this book. Buy several copies and give it to people who need to discover the truth about the anti-american, anti-democracy agenda of a truly terrible person, Hillary Clinton. Treacherously deceitful, she arrogantly acts on her belief that her intellectual superiority gives her the right to accomplish her socialist agenda, regardless of our great country's rule of law. She and her ilk are dangerous to our freedom. She thinks you and I are too stupid to know what is good for us, and for, our children. Her own words reveal her contempt for us, as she describes how the state should make decisions about the education, health, and up-bringing of our children. Well-researched and documented book. Buy it.

....Here is how Barbara Olson begins Chapter 1. She begins with this intro quote: "Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life." - Saul Alinksy, "Rules For Radicals" She then begins her book: "Do you remember Hillary's preelection baby? In the summer before the 1996 election, when the Clintons' popularity had waned and it seemed as if the struggle for reelection might not succeed, Hillary Rodham Clinton let journalist Walter Isaacson know that she and the president had `talked about' adopting a baby. She let it slip that they were '`talking about it more now.'' She added, `I must say we're hoping to have another child.'..." Brilliant juxtaposition and the book gets better from there. I especially enjoyed her analysis of how Hillary, far from being a passive "Tammy Wynette", actually commanded the team of "secret police" (Dick Morris's term) who's job it is to humiliate, intimidate and destroy the countless women who have over the years come in contact with his Crooked Willy. She is far from being a mere enabler. Because of her rise in power each time she rescues him from scandal, she, in their own sick little relationship, actually encourages his depravity. If you want to know how low this woman actually is, ask yourself why she has never addressed the sexual abuse allegations of the Democratic fundraiser, Kathleen Willey, or the rape allegation of Democratic campaign worker, Juanita Broadderick? And why, after years of destroying these little women, did she have the gall to go on national TV and flat out lie that the rumors (later of course proven true) that he had sex with the 21 year old Democratic White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, were part of a "vast right wing conspiracy"?

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Olson is able to delve deep into the first lady and explore the woman that has been able to fool the media for a seriously long time. Olson's account of how Hillary made her fortune in stock market speculation is nothing short of amazing.

Follow along this twisted tale of the woman who knew of her husband's infidelity and stayed silent, all in the name if power and money. You read about Hillary use of a "secret police" to protect herself and the White House from any "threats" she perceived.

For the first time we have a book that takes the gloves off and exposes the real Hillary Clinton. Leaving no stone unturned and no lead unfollowed, Olson shows the true colors of one of the most venomous and villainous women in American History. Loved It!