This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Monday, October 02, 2000)
 | | The Case Against Hillary Clinton
by Peggy Noonan |
Regan Books
181 pages, January 2000
Hardcover, 24.00
ISBN: 0060393408
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.
As the long, scandal-ridden trial of the Clinton years comes to an end—and as the first lady mounts her own campaign for
independent political office—it is time for a summation. What is the legacy of Clintonism? What is there in Hillary Clinton's
background, talents, or record of achievement that qualifies her to represent New York in the U.S. Senate? And, most important,
what will happen if Hillary should win this fall? Where will her ambition lead her next?
Peggy Noonan, one of our most astute political observers and a speechwriter for the Reagan White House, argues in this passionate
and compelling book that everyone in the United States—not just New Yorkers—must look closely at Hillary and the implications of
her Senate bid. The Case Against Hillary Clinton offers an eye-opening assessment of the scandals, and failures of the Clinton
years, from Whitewater to health care to the Filegate and Travelgate affairs—casting a revealing light on the first lady's motives and
behavior. It poses searching questions about the difference between the citizens of New York and the Clintons of Arkansas; between
public service and lip service; between the whole truth and the shameless parade of evasion and spin the first couple has marshaled
throughout their White House years. And finally, in these pages Noonan calls on us to consider the climate of deception and disgrace
the Clintons have left in their wake—weakening our nation's moral standing and damaging our political process in ways that will take
years to heal.
Never before has the character of a first lady been so integral to the fate of a presidential administration and no writer before Peggy
Noonan has had the courage to offer so uncompromising an estimation of Hillary Clinton as the one contained in this book. The Case
Against Hillary Clinton takes the measure of the woman, the candidate, the striving politician—and offers a convincing argument that
her calculated bid for power will be the first truly important election of the new millennium.
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