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The Secret Life of Bill Clinton

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
25 November 1997

Pages
  
460

Author
  
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

ISBN
  
9780895264084

Genres
  
Politics, Biography

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Publisher
  
Regnery Publishing

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
25 November 1997

Page count
  
460

Country
  
United States of America

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The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories is a critical biography about certain episodes during the administration of former United States president Bill Clinton by English author and investigative journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.

Contents

Content

The book, published in 1997 by Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C, an imprint of Eagle Publishing caused controversy in the USA. Evans-Pritchard, the author, at the time was chief editor in Washington DC for the Sunday Telegraph. In particular, the book investigates the death of former deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster.

The Secret Life makes various allegations about Clinton, including drug use, visits to prostitutes and dishonesty. In the book he also repeats the Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy theory that the Oklahoma City bombing was an FBI sting operation that went horribly wrong, that warnings by an ATF undercover agent were ignored, and that the Justice Department subsequently engaged in a cover-up.

In Clinton's America, Evans-Pritchard alleged: "The way American reporters cover Arkansas is exactly the way they covered Nicaragua, which is they didn't go out into the hills and talk to ordinary people," he noted in 1997.

Reaction

Evans' work has been criticized as: "little more than wild flights of conspiratorial fancy coupled with outrageous and wholly uncorroborated allegations", although Robert Novak defends Evans-Pritchard as: " "...being no conspiracy-theory lunatic.... [H]e was known in Washington for accuracy, industry and courage."

However, Gene Lyons, columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and author of Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater (Franklin Square Press, 1996). says in an article: 'When necessary, Evans-Pritchard resorts to even more questionable methods. The temptation, in addressing so manifestly absurd and error-filled a piece of work, is to raillery. In form, Evans-Pritchard's book is a feverish concatenation of what his countryman, Guardian Washington correspondent Martin Walker, calls "the Clinton legends" into one vast, delusional epic.'

References

The Secret Life of Bill Clinton Wikipedia