Truth at Any Cost
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.41 (594 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0694522856 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 327 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Customer said Merely a disguised effort at advocacy. I just finished reading the Hunting of the President by Conanson and Lyon, and Truth at Any Cost. These books provide an instructive contrast. Thus, while Hunting provides copious footnotes for factual assertions, Truth far too often presents the judgments, feelings, assessments and views of Starr and his staff in subtle substitution for attributed facts and as though those statements were the comp. Osher Doctorow, Ph.D. said Truth at Any Cost: Ken Starr and the Unmaking of Clinton. The editorials above and the other reviewers (especially the first few) give an outstanding summary of the book. Here I will emphasize the points that interest me about the book. Susan Schmidt, one of the co-authors, first broke the Lewinsky story in the Washington Post and is an outstanding investigative reporter. Ken Starr reminds me from this book of my old idea that if Christ or the Old Testame. "A hard hitting and balanced account" according to A Customer. This is a hard hitting and fascinating look behind the scenes of one of the most sensational investigations in history. Not being particularly partisan myself, I found it to be balanced and equally unflattering to both sides, often in ways not consistent with the news reports.During the investigation, I never found the Ken Starr described by the media to be consistent with the man I saw giving Cong
Schmidt broke the Lewinsky story in the Post in January 1998 and piled up scoops o every front. Susan Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf, both award-winning investigative reporters, worked togethr at the Washington Post for several years until Weisskopf's move to Time in 1997. Schmidt broke the Lewinsky story in the
. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Their account of Clinton's impeachment will not be available for review prior to publication. From Library Journal Washington Post reporter Schmidt broke the Monica Lewinsky story; Weisskopf worked with her until joining Time
Schmidt and Weisskopf lay bare what happened on the night when FBI agents first confronted Monica Lewinsky, how the White House launched a political jihad to survive, and how Starr's team agonized over Clinton's fate.For four years, the bland, smiling man behind the investigation of President Clinton remained a mystery, both to many who supported him and to those who feared him. Truth at Any Cost shows Ken Starr in a new light: as an upright but politically naive prosecutor who withstood public vilification to pursue the truth--including what he and his deputies saw as the president's attempts to use the power of his office to thwart a legitimate inquiry. It examines Starr's impassioned quest to bring the president to justice, and explains how Starr eventually became a casualty of his own mission, leaving the arena as bloodied as the man he had pursued.. What drove the man who nearly toppled a presidency and forced the most serious constitutional crisis in twenty-five years? Co