Ron Brown's Body: How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future [Hardcover]

Jack Cashill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 13, 2004

The mysterious death of Ron Brown has caused much controversy and suspicion, and in this investigative book, Cashill takes a close look at Brown's checkered career as Clinton fund-raiser and commerce secretary and consequently exposes the Clintons' dirty, relentless practices for getting financial backing. Cashill answers the most trenchant questions surrounding Brown's rise and fall: Why did his plane crash? Why did the White House suppress an investigation? What was the purpose of Brown's trade missions? And what larger forces caused the Clintons to seek international cash? Using the case of Ron Brown's untimely death as a touchstone for the Clintons' unseemly and unsavory practices in the White House, Cashill explores the seedy depths of the most corrupt adminstration in American history during its two most desperate years and focuses directly on the machinations of the direst threat to today's political scene, Hillary Clinton.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (May 13, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785262377
• ISBN-13: 978-0785262374
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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62 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Revelations and Connections, July 11, 2004

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This review is from: Ron Brown's Body: How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future (Hardcover)

No matter what one's political leanings are, a discerning reader will find both the factual and theoretical information presented in this book intriguing. The author writes in a style I can best describe as clear and powerful: he does not get bogged down in over-explanation of facts, and the unfolding events leading up to Secretary Brown's death read like a gripping suspense novel...except these events are well-documented NON-fiction. The author's exhaustive research and hours of interviews with the people in Ron Brown's world are thoroughly documented. As I read what had happened in the years prior to his death, I made my own connections and theories. The author, Mr. Cashill, did not preach, and did not press theories and proposed scenarios as truth. Mr. Cashill respects the reader...respects the reader's intelligence and deduction skills. I must highly recommend this book: you will not be bored, you will find it hard to put down, you will learn a lot, what you already know will be reinforced, and you will want to talk to others about it.

102 of 116 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An American tragedy, May 18, 2004

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Kimberley Wilson (VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ron Brown's Body: How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future (Hardcover)

Ron Brown looked like he had everything but in reality towards the end of his life, he had nothing. I don't think I've read anything this sad in ages. Here was a talented, charming and highly astute man who really could've made history but instead he almost came to social and political ruin.

This book carefully explained what Brown blundered into and why it was so bad. The only criticisms I have are these: the author relies just a tad bit too much on one of Brown's companions for details (the natural urge to see oneself in the best light probably colors this person's memories) and overdoes it with the melodramatic foreshadowing. We all know what happened to Brown so there's no need to harp on what's coming in each chapter.

One sensible thing Cashill does is that he didn't get bogged down in a conspiracy theory. He offers the reader a number of scenarios to explain why the plane crashed and how Brown's body got the infamous head wound. He then allows the reader to make up his or her own mind and he withdraws.

For the most part it's a well written and surprisingly sympathetic book. The chapters on Brown's visit to a chapel before his death and the jockeying for position at his funeral are worth the its price alone.

79 of 93 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I'm Superstitious, July 25, 2004

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This review is from: Ron Brown's Body: How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future (Hardcover)

As Don Corleone would have said, "I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall someone who could harm Clinton - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in his administration."

If all those deaths associated with people who had the power to bring Clinton down were simply coincidence, Clinton's the luckiest president in history.

Not only was Brown's head wound perfectly round and perfectly sized for a .45-caliber bullet hole, it was beveled just like an object with blunt sides, kinda like...well...a bullet.

Then investigators want to talk to the local who was responsible for bringing in the plane for landing, but ooopsie, he's got a bullet hole in him, too. And guess what? It's a .45-caliber bullet wound said to be self-inflicted. I can't help but think how lucky Mr. Clinton was. And how conveeeenient it was for the local to use a U.S. caliber instead of a 9mm or .380.

But I have to admit this hit was cleaner than the Vince Foster hit. Now the guy who did Vince was a rank amateur. They should let the mob go back to doing these things. They were much better.

For those who believe this was all coincidence, there are a lot of good books on the Easter Bunny here.