The Hunting of the President by Joe Conason

The Hunting of the President by Joe Conason

When Hillary Clinton spoke of a vast right-wing conspiracy determined to bring down the president, many people dismissed the idea. Yet if the first lady's accusation was exaggerated, the facts that have since emerged point toward a covert and often concerted effort by Bill Clinton's enemies--abetted by his own reckless behavior--which led inexorably to impeachment. Clinton's foes launched a cascade of well-financed attacks that undermined American democracy and nearly destroyed the Clinton presidency.

In vivid prose, Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, two award-winning veteran journalists, identify the antagonists, reveal their tactics, trace the millions of dollars that subsidized them, and examine how and why mainstream news organizations aided those who were determined to bring down Bill Clinton, The Hunting of the President may very well be the All the President's Men of this political regime.

Joe Conason is a veteran political journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of the National Memo, and editor-at-large for the Investigative Fund. His articles have appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Nation, New Republic, American Prospect, Politico, Guardian (London), and the New York Observer, among many other publications. He appears frequently on television and radio. He is the author of Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton; It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush; the New York Times bestseller Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth; and with coauthor Gene Lyons The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill Clinton, also a New York Times bestseller.