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Overview
Clinton Confidential: The Climb to Power chronicles Bill and Hillary Clinton's ambitious journey, starting with Clinton's youth, through his days as an anti-war protester and draft resister at Georgetown University and Oxford University, to Yale Law school, where he meets his future bride and political partner, Hillary Rodham. Bill Clinton lusted after the presidency at an early age. Every move he made seemed to be part of a cunning strategy to attain his ultimate tenancy of the White House. Starting with his first political gig as Arkansas's attorney general, the reader gets an inside look at Clinton's machinations that become increasingly Machiavellian throughout his five-term career as governor. As Hillary gains powerful influence in her own career, you learn how she secretly struggles to keep her star from outshining her husband's. Clinton Confidential: The Climb to Power is an astonishingly frank analysis of our 42nd president and his wife.Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
In this relentlessly negative biography, former New York Post editor Carpozi accuses Bill Clinton and "co-president" Hillary of engaging in evasive, unethical and "most probably criminal" behavior from the days of the Arkansas governorship to the present White House. He labels as a probable murder the purported suicide of White House counsel Vincent Foster, Hillary Clinton's former law partner. Citing 17 other deaths under suspicious circumstances (e.g., Governor Clinton's security chief, Luther Parks, gunned down in 1993, who was said to be writing an exposé of Bill Clinton's licentious life), Carpozi charges that these deaths were linked to the Clintons' efforts to cover up their Whitewater land deals, illegal campaign contributions and other shady business ventures. He alleges that Governor Clinton received huge amounts of money as compensation for his hands-off policy toward a CIA-orchestrated arms-shipment and cocaine-smuggling operation that was run out of the Mena, Arkansas, airport and that abetted the Nicaraguan contras. Carpozi weakens his indictments by including unsubstantiated allegations concerning Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs. Though mean-spirited and ultimately tedious, this bio raises serious charges that should not be ignored. Photos.Publishers Weekly -
In this relentlessly negative biography, former New York Post editor Carpozi accuses Bill Clinton and ``co-president'' Hillary of engaging in evasive, unethical and ``most probably criminal'' behavior from the days of the Arkansas governorship to the present White House. He labels as a probable murder the purported suicide of White House counsel Vincent Foster, Hillary Clinton's former law partner. Citing 17 other deaths under suspicious circumstances (e.g., Governor Clinton's security chief, Luther Parks, gunned down in 1993, who was said to be writing an expos of Bill Clinton's licentious life), Carpozi charges that these deaths were linked to the Clintons' efforts to cover up their Whitewater land deals, illegal campaign contributions and other shady business ventures. He alleges that Governor Clinton received huge amounts of money as compensation for his hands-off policy toward a CIA-orchestrated arms-shipment and cocaine-smuggling operation that was run out of the Mena, Arkansas, airport and that abetted the Nicaraguan contras. Carpozi weakens his indictments by including unsubstantiated allegations concerning Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs. Though mean-spirited and ultimately tedious, this bio raises serious charges that should not be ignored. Photos. $100,000 ad/promo; author tour. (Mar.)Book Details
Published
March 1, 1995
Publisher
Del Mar, Calif. : Emery Dalton Books, 1995.
Pages
540
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780964047907