Presidential Supporters & Critics, U.S. Politics & Government - 20th Century, Corruption & Scandals, U.S. Politics & Government - 1992-2001
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Overview
Scoffing at the idea that the far right of the Republican Party was poised to seize the American state, Hitchens points out that the real coup d'etat was executed by a Democratic president who took every remnant of New Deal liberalism in his party and tore it into shreds. In this, he was assisted by finance from Miami Cuban mobsters and advice from his only friend and closest consultant, Dick Morris, a conservative Republican. Public attention which might otherwise have tried to prevent this tragedy was diverted, together with the sound judgement of many on the left, along a path of dalliance with issues of race, gender and sexuality of which the Monica Lewinsky affair was the most intoxicating example.Editorials
Fortune
The prose is polished to a luminous glow, and the invective is of a high humor....Hitchens is fearless and erudite and blessedly untainted by conventional wisdom.Karen Lehrman
[The book] doesn't offer much new in the way of facts or analysis. But with a witty bluntness uncommon in today's political discourse, Hitchens boldly puts the pieces of the Clinton puzzle together — and isn't afraid to describe the result....Hitchens' brave willingness to show all the sordid scenarios in which our emperor has removed his clothes is beyond refreshing.—The New York Times Book Review
David Tell
...[A] withering treatment of the contemporary culture of Clintonism....Hitchens understands our scandalous president with rare and unsparing precision....No One Left to Lie To is a veritable bible of anti-anti-anti Clintonism. —The Weekly StandardMartin Jay
...[I]ts tone is that of someone supremely confident in his possession of the unvarnished truth....[I]ronically, the book is itself an extended op-ed piece, resting more on avid belief and strongly held opinions than hard, dispassionately presented knowledge, and liberally drawing on its author's formidable rhetorical skills to convince the reader.— London Review of Books
David Tell
...[A] withering treatment of the contemporary culture of Clintonism....Hitchens understands our scandalous president with rare and unsparing precision....No One Left to Lie To is a veritable bible of anti-anti-anti Clintonism.— The Weekly Standard
Mark Steyn
The case against Clinton has been made repeatedly by many of my fellow right-wing crazies, but this is the first one by a left-wing crazy, and future generations will salute him for it.— Literary Review
Louis Menand
You don't buy Christopher Hitchens's book because you want to find out whether Bill Clinton is really as terrible a liar as some people say he is. You buy it because you know he is a terrible liar, and the invitation to have a pungent fellow like Hitchens confirm every prejudice you ever had on the subject, plus a few you might not even have known you had, is an invitation you cannot resist.— New York Times Magazine
Edward Said
By far the best of all the books on the Clinton era.— Al-Ahram Weekly
Karen Lehrman
With a witty bluntness uncommon in today's political discourse, Hitchens boldly puts the pieces of the Clinton puzzle together-and isn't afraid to describe the result . . . Hitchens's brave willingness to show all the sordid scenarios in which our emperor has removed his clothes is beyond refreshing.— New York Times Book Review
Book Details
Published
May 1, 1999
Publisher
London ; Verso, 1999.
Pages
122
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781859847367