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The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President

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Edward Klein is a former reporter for the New York Times Magazine and foreign editor for Newsweek. Neither of these publications could be considered "Right Wing". So perhaps, just maybe, this book actually contains the truth about Hillary! Either that, or Howard Dean has enlisted Klein as part of a vast left wing conspiracy.

Why are there already "reviews" or even low (or high - I had to select one to post this question) stars, if the book has not even come out? Try reading it first, people!

I've heard alot about this book - mainly about how poorly written, how factually inaccurate and how malicious it was. That surprised me because I know that Ed Klein is not some conservative nutjob. He is in fact a product of The New York Times and other established media. So my curiosity was raised.. and I read the book for myself.

What I found is a well-written, easy read, and most importantly a reasoned and documented discussion of the women who may well be our next president. Unlike some other reviews, I find it important to know about the personal characteristics of one who would be president. I felt it was important to know whether George W. Bush neglected his duty in the Air National Guard, and I felt it was important to know whether John Kerry lied about or fabricated his Vietnam experiences. So I feel it's also important to know what Hillary's core values are, how she developed those beliefs, how she applied those beliefs and how she's adjusted those beliefs. This book gives some of the best insight into those questions.

Klein does not appear to be on some kind of political rant, nor does his background suggest it. It is clear that he's found some disturbing elements of Hillary's background (both politcal and personal) and is highlighting them. That is a worthy and necessary job.

That Hillary's people don't like what he's written is understandable. The lengths that they've gone to discredit and destroy the author is not. But that is another part of Hillary's disturbing elements.

Read the book for yourself. I'm not sure if Hillary's people have.

For me it was just like that!!. I discovered that the woman I admired wasn't as good person as I supposed her to be. Human, yes someone can be as human as anyone else, but calculating the advantadges of being cheated by her husband as everything is suposed to be used for your own profit...that is too much for me!!

Definetly, this book opened my eyes and now I know that the greatest actors and actresses are out of Hollywood and into the White House.

Thank you Edward Klein for telling America the truth about this lying conniving snake in the grass who has done nothing to promote REAL women. As a woman I believe that some day a woman will be president but she's not the one to fill the job. Hillary is nothing but a disgrace to women, marriage, and motherhood and we'd all be better off without her in any political office. This is a book EVERYONE should read and know the truth. I've learned so much of the truth she doesn't want USA citizens to know. If she does end up with the democratic nomination for President in 2008, I'll be sure to volunteer for her opponent even though I've never been involved in politics. She already had her eight years and we're still paying for it.

Unlike so many who have felt the need to comment on this book, I have taken the time to actually read it all the way through. Frankly, the attacks on this book are wildly off base and unjustified. If this book were about anyone other than Hillary Clinton none of what is said here would amount to a "vicious lie" or "attack journalism" as others have characterized it. In fact, most of what is here is collected from news stories, other books, and television reports. Other interviews were conducted and several of them are unnamed, but so what?

Some well respected journalists have made entire careers disparaging certain politicians with unnamed sources. The public is certainly able to weigh and judge what is credible and what is ridiculous. Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post rightly points out the double standard in the media in the way Kitty Kelly's much trashier book on the Bush family was given vast air play and how this book was given the silent treatment.

Since this book does get on the personal side of Hillary's life, I can see how some conservatives would run from it because of the way the Clinton attack team uses any statement unapproved by them as an excuse to savage all Republicans and to wrap themselves in the sackcloth of the terribly wronged victim. But the Clinton ploy is completely unjustified. When have they respected the private life of anyone? What about the treatment they gave all the women who dared comment on their treatment by Bill? If you speak against the Clintons everything about your life and the life of anyone you care about is fair game.

Among the many problems that all politicians have is this, they all play a kind of theatrical game because they have to appeal to such a large base to win. They cannot be a real person and be that broadly appealing. So, they use lights, smoke, and mirrors to present a crafted image of themselves. For some, creating an appealing image is more difficult. Hillary falls into this category. Whenever anyone presents unapproved information about her she feels that her carefully built house of cards is vulnerable and she attacks like a famished shark.

This book takes us backstage, as it were, and of course it has to be portrayed as a horrible and partisan smear campaign even though the author has absolutely NOTHING to do with the GOP or any conservative group. As a thought experiment: what is more true about, say, Jay Leno, the on camera Tonight Show Jay, or the guy in his office getting ready for the show? Or the Jay at home with his wife and cars? Each is true in its own way and a serious debate could be made about what access the public should have to the "real Jay".

However, since our government officials have such a profound effect on our lives, unlike Jay Leno, the public has wanted to know more and more about the real candidate. Dick Morris, of all people, has called for a zone of privacy. But how can that be provided Presidential candidates? Why should we have to accept the artificial version of the candidate mounted by the campaign or the equally misshapen version put forward by their opposition? I think many people want to get to the real person underneath, warts and all. Especially when the person is as controversial with so many public versions of themselves as Hillary Clinton has floating around.

This book does talk about her success as a Senator. It also puts the lie to her claim that she did not know about Bill's affairs. And it asks some questions about why she stays with Bill even though they are seldom together and he has become more reckless with his affairs. It is not a rehash of Whitewater or all the familiar stuff. It spends more time with her as a high school student and a radical at Wellesley. I was also glad to know more about her work to impeach Richard Nixon. When peeling back the layers, we need to know this stuff to get at what makes Hillary tick.

When we see the background staff and their machinations we see clearly that she has not become more conservative or even centrist. This book shows clearly that it is all a pose to make her attractive to the broad electorate. And while that is all fair politics, I wonder why so few have felt the need to go after this when it is always asked about anyone from the GOP.

I think this book is one voice in the debate about who the real Hillary is and I am glad to have read it. If the "mainstream press" doesn't like it, then let them put forward a serious critique of this soon-to-be Presidential Candidate rather than producing yet another puff piece for their anointed one.

To use their worn out phrase, "The Public Has A Right to Know".

Very well researched. Klein could have been much tougher on Hillary but pulled his punches. He was certainly a gentleman!
I thought he was a little light on the subject of her campaign finances and where they came from.

The most frightening aspect of this book is the illustration of
the power of HRC. The number of news outlets, radio and television shows which under pressure refused to hold the already
scheduled interviews with this author was quite telling. As I recall, there were
just about 3 or 4 who were brave enough to defy the oppression of the HRC machine. If we think we can rely on all of the news
sources to accurately report ANYTHING about HRC, please, PLEASE
remember what happened in this instance.

This is an extremely well researched and readable book. I thoroughly enjoyed it. You would hope by now that not just Hillary but both the Clintons would realize that the old tricks of deception and blatant dishonesty doesn't pay off.

This is the true story of half of the Clinton crookedness that has been apparent for years, but has been successfully submerged by their machine.
This is an excellent book, written by a well regarded author. Mainstream media attempts to discredit him, and it is apparent they are sadly "in the pocket" or at least on the side of, the Clinton machine.