Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America

by Roger Morris

Book Overview

In this devastating dual portrait of the former president and first lady, an investigative reporter reveals the untold secrets of the most ambitious yet scandalous partnership in the history of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805028048
• ISBN13: 9780805028041
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 526 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Written by a Highly Reputable Advisor to Democrats (and NOT a Republican Attack)

This is a highly reputable book with loads of revealing information about who the Clintons are and how history will ultimately judge them. It explains how they could bring so many enormous disasters to themselves, to Al Gore's campaign later, and to Hillary's campaign after that. Even though the Clinton years were ones of overall prosperity, people are tired of their scandals and foul character as detailed in this book. Roger Morris, a reputable Democrat, served with distinction for Democrats Lyndon Johnson (president of the United States), Dean Acheson (Secretary of State), and Walter Mondale (vice president and candidate for president). He is NOT a Republican attack dog. He is reputable and this book is well researched with the facts. For his biography of Richard Nixon, Morris was a finalist for the reputable National Book Award, a very selective award of integrity. His biography of Nixon was authoritative and accurately showed Nixon to be ambitious, intelligent, willing to be ruthless, and at times paranoid. His biography of Nixon was not a Republican whitewash. It was fair, and Morris was part of the reputable PBS American Presidents documentary of Richard Nixon. Partners in Power presents the facts. It is NOT a Republican attack book. However, this book does not cover the many later scandals, such as Bill Clinton giving away numerous pardons for donation, including on the lamb, wanted by the FBI. It does not show the hundreds of millions of dollars in wealth that the clinton built with Bill Clinton working for a billionaire in California and clients in the Middle East while his wife influeneced policies in Washington D.C. They refused to release their tax returns for most of the primary, except at the end after Super Tuesday. It does not mention Hillary Clinton's race-baiting remarks in an interview in USA Today, 'I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,' she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article 'that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.'" Or remarks from Geraldine Ferraro, a high-level clinton campaign employee and former candidate for Vice President, that said, "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position." No mention of how half of Americans said they would not vote for her under any circumstance and the overall disgust with the Clinton scandals.

The reality of the Bill Clinton

This is an excellent read! If you are unconvinced of the corruption we have had for the last eight years, then this book will cause you to reconsider. It also goes into detail as to how Bill Clinton got into this terrible state.Anyone who dismisses this book as unsubstanstiated is obviously partisana and also hasn't been paying attention to the news for the last eight years. An objective and reasonable person will see the truth and the truth is what is written is true and well documented. Mind you this is a close friend of Bill Clinton who wrote the book! No agenda - just truth for those who can accept it. This book highlights the pattern of deceit, drug use and corruption. Frankly, I'd rather not be in denial but admit the obvious about this man. Hopefull the American people will never allow someone of this low calibur ever become President again.

The reality of the Bill Clinton

This is an excellent read! If you are unconvinced of the corruption we have had for the last eight years, then this book will cause you to reconsider. It also goes into detail as to how Bill Clinton got into this terrible condition.Anyone who dismisses this book as unsubstantiated is obviously partisan and hasn't been paying attention to the news for the last eight years nor of late. An objective and reasonable person will see the truth and the truth is what is written in this book. It is well written and well documented. Mind you this is a close friend of Bill Clinton who wrote the book! No agenda - just truth for those who can accept it. This book highlights the ongoing pattern of deceit, illegal substance use, womanizing by force and corruption. Frankly, I'd rather not be in denial but admit the obvious about this man. Hopefully the American people will never allow someone of this low caliber ever become President again.

Morris strains to make his critique systemic in nature <br>

Roger Morris has obviously done a ton of investigative work to complete this book. He threatens to be terribly profound when he hints at a systemic crisis well beyond the misdeeds of the Clintons, but he never really gets beyond his obession with making a point about the Clinton's 'lack of character' and the compromises they commit on their way to the summit of American politics. There has been so much trash talk aimed at the Clinton's for fairly tranparent partisan reasons this book just seems to be another in a litany of attacks. So the Clinton's compromised basic values in their drive for power. I don't really see much insight in that. I hate to sound like a Clinton apologist, because I can see the guy for what he is, but this book would have been for more effective if Morris went into more detail on the swamp that is American politics, campaign finance, influence buying generally and the whole compromised morass of those who achieve real power in American life. Perhaps Morris would write a follow up book on that subject ranging well beyond the infirmities of the Clinton's, drawing parallels between the culture of our nations capitol and the unseemly machinations of power in our supposedly pristine state capitols.

Starts a bit slow; the latter chapters are worth the wait.

The early chapters are devoted to the childhoods of the President and First Lady. Unless the reader has an inordinate interest in a third party's opinion of what made somebody who and what they are, these chapters are a bit slow. Some of the detail, however, is quite engaging. From about the middle of the book on, it is almost impossible to put it down. The author pulls no punches, dealing openly with allegations of cocaine use in the Governor's Mansion during the Clinton years, screaming and profane fights between the two Clintons, and a compromise on Hillary's part to live with Bill's hundreds of one-night stands in order to attain her goal of First Lady. The writer does an excellent job of explaining Hillary's commodities market caper, Whitewater, and other shady deals involving the First Couple during their Arkansas years. It you have heretofore had trouble understanding the finer pints of those events because explanations were convoluted and arcane, the writer's language will likely clear up your confusion with his straightforward, clear, and concise prose. I recommend this book to both Clinton fans and their detractors. It could easily persuade the former to rethink their position, and the latter to say "see, I TOLD you what he was!" A must read.