The Clinton Crack-Up

by R. Emmett Tyrrell

Globe trotting, international deal-making, lucrative personal financial ties to countries like China and the United Arab Emirates, and (of course) womanizing: it's the post-White House career of Bill Clinton, as chronicled by longtime Clinton watcher R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., in The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President's Life After the White House. Tyrrell, the longtime publisher of The American Spectator and author of Boy Clinton, here reveals Clinton's post-presidential escapades at their most unseemly: his shameless money-grubbing, his continued prevaricating and philandering, and much more - including his tireless work to put Hillary into the White House.

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Above all, Tyrrell draws back the curtain on how the Clintons plan to put Hillary in the White House in January 2009 - with Bill serving as both exemplar and coach. Tyrrell explains how Hillary is hewing to a course of studied ambiguity, trying to play all sides of important issues to win votes, just as her husband did in his heyday. It's a strategy as cynical as it is effective - making The Clinton Crack-Up not to be missed by everyone who wants to stop Hillary in 2008.

The Clintons' sordid public career and even more sordid retirement:

• The deal President Clinton offered to Arnold Schwarzenegger: support for a constitutional amendment allowing foreign-born presidents in exchange for supporting repeal of the amendment forbidding presidents a third term

• How, just as no president ever became so dependent on foreign campaign contributions during his presidency as Clinton, so no ex-president became so dependent on foreign money in his retirement - even to the point of being willing to rent his influence illegally to foreign powers

• The Clinton Foundation: how this AIDS charity failed to meet at least six of the 19 accountability standards established by the Better Business Bureau

• Why news of Clinton's White House adulteries may once again dominate the headlines

• How Hillary's emergence as frontrunner for the Democratic Presidential nomination demonstrates the Clintons' mastery of mob psychology - and cannily play on their base's need to identify and vilify enemies

• How, despite his professed liberal democratic beliefs, Clinton managed to alienate democratic governments in Taipei, Tokyo, and New Delhi - and broke faith with the Chinese dissidents who braved beatings and jail terms when they called for reform

• The myth of Clinton's youthful poverty: how has endured years of public scrutiny through all his campaigns - providing an example of Clinton's playing to the psychological needs of the credulous

• Hillary's team of thugs who charged the Clinton campaign more than $100,000 to discredit and harass her husband's former girlfriends

• How Hillary regularly cursed at military aides and Secret Service agents - and on one occasion actually assaulted an agent

• The Republican victory in 1994: why much of it can be attributed to Hillary's shoving her husband to the Left

• Hillary: how, as First Lady, she abused power, obstructed justice, and gave "factually inaccurate" testimony under oath

• China: how it took advantage of the Clinton administration's relaxed technology transfer policies - to the extent that America is now facing a growing military threat from what turn out to be Clinton campaign contributors

• Clinton's eleventh-hour pardons: how they broke even his own rules for granting pardons, so that an investigator observed, "While other Presidents had issued controversial pardons and commutations, never before had a President made so many grants of clemency with so little justification"

• How Clinton perceived no ethical problem in granting a pardon to an unrepentant felon whose former wife was distributing money to Slick Willie's favorite charities

• My Life: a dreadful presidential memoir, chaotic in shape, abundant with obvious deceits, and revealing of Clinton's many delusions - and the occasion of a book tour that would become one of his most narcissistic revels ever

• Al Gore's tense relationship with Bill Clinton - and why this rift did not cost him the election in 2000

• How many of Clinton's former cronies asked him not to help their campaigns in 2002 - and why Democrats began thinking better of Slick Willie in 2003

• How Hillary is the only politician so far to have survived an association with Bill Clinton - although she has paid a high personal price for this

• Howard Dean's 2004 challenge to Bill Clinton's eminent role in the Democratic party - and how, in turn Clinton derailed Dean's presidential candidacy

• Why so many Democrats attribute their loss in 2004 to the Clinton curse

• Why every one of the fifteen exhibits in the Clinton Presidential Library will have to be rewritten - including a treatment of his impeachment and disgrace as an accidental episode in an unbroken eight-year struggle by Republicans to remove him from office

• A disquieting sign for Hillary's 2008 opponents who might want to make an issue of the scandals in which the most scandal-tarnished woman in American politics has been involved

• How the looming battle between the two wings of the 1960s generation - one championing the Roosevelt heritage and the other that of Reagan - explains much of the bitterness of contemporary politics