From Scratch

Mrs. Clinton:
First, please know I did not choose that form of address just because protocol dictates it, when not addressing you as Senator Clinton. I chose it because, for all your lip service to feminism, you quickly come to mind when I think of women whose success is tied to their husbands’. Without him and […]

Carl Bernstein wrote an incisive opinion piece the other day for Anderson Cooper’s 360 blog. Bernstein, author of the Hillary Clinton biography, A Woman in Charge, is a CNN analyst this year and appears on Cooper’s program.
His post is so damning that Clinton loyalist Lanny Davis requested and got the chance to rebut.
In speculating what a Clinton […]

One of my favorite bloggers, MusEditions, is a fellow book lover and recently tagged me to take part in a fun little book-related meme. The rules were few: pick up the book nearest me, turn to page 123, find the fifth sentence and post the next three.
In truth, the book nearest me at the time […]

A few weeks ago Carl Bernstein described himself as a missionary for A Woman in Charge, his biography of Hillary Clinton. And why not? It’s an excellent book and, as I said in April and will say again, an important book. As he has pointed out, had there been real biography about our current president before […]

The Los Angeles Times reports today that some 2 million papers from Hillary Clinton’s years as first lady have been locked up at the Clinton presidential library and are not likely to be released until some time after the elections next year. Among the documents are appointment logs, calendars and memos, including memos about meetings […]

I know search engines are bringing you here because it was in one of my incoming RSS feeds; you can still get there from here. You can find the article/review either by going to the Sunday Times Book Review RSS feed at the bottom of the sidebar or by following the permalink from Bernstein’s Hillary […]

I feel a bit bad for Carl Bernstein. After years of work to produce 600+ well-crafted pages about Hillary Clinton, sex still sells. Three television interviews and three times now he has had to say there is no sex act in the book. It must be somewhat frustrating. As usual, we need the print media to […]

Carl Bernstein was to have gone on the Today show next Tuesday, when his biography of Hillary Clinton is published; the competing book by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta will be excerpted in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday. So who showed up on Today this morning? Bernstein, of course, in an interview […]

The Sunday Times of London has published an excerpt of Carl Bernstein’s forthcoming biography of Hillary Clinton, to be published June 5.
The excerpt, headlined The pain of being Hillary, focuses not only on marital discord but also on the distress caused by mis-steps in Bill Clinton’s political career and their effects on her own ambitions. […]

I find her to be among the most self-righteous people I’ve ever known in my life. And it’s her great flaw…

                       –Former Clinton White House aide Bob Boorstin to Carl Bernstein
Information from the forthcoming and competing Hillary Clinton biographies is emerging not quite two weeks before their often-changed publication dates. The Washington Post today says A […]

The publishers of the two upcoming biographies of Hillary Clinton have changed their publication dates yet again. According to The New York Times, Knopf will publish A Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein two weeks from today, on June 5, and Little, Brown will publish Her Way by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr. […]

When Knopf announced a June 19 publication date for A Woman in Charge, Carl Bernstein’s biography of Hillary Clinton, some news stories noted another Hillary biography was due in August. Little, Brown will publish Her Way by New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Von Natta, Jr. Now, Little, Brown is moving the publication […]

Carl Bernstein’s biography of Hillary Clinton will be published June 19. (edit: Pub date is now June 5, see here.) This is, in my opinion, an important book. His publisher, Knopf, says A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton will have an initial press run of 350,000 copies, an unusually high number, indicating expectations […]