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I have the audio version of this book. It tells the story of Hilary Clinton from her birth to the end of her husband term in office. I got this because I wanted to know what they were doing in the White House for 8 years. Now I am not some crazy right winger and I did listen to the entire book. The story she tells is like the version you would hear from a college sorority girl. I say this because she sees the world though Rose color glasses. She really doesn't tell about the history just her personal observations. It seems like she is complaining all the time because the Republicans were out to get her and her husband. Everything she did was right but those evil doers kept stopping her from getting her health care proposals through. The other big topic was women's rights and in this diatribe you hear how men all over the world are out to suppress women. I could see her point when she talked about some of the Asian countries but not here. She was a little peculiar when it came to some of her anecdotes like the one about Jackie Kennedy and when they tried to get her to go off a high dive. All she did was climb up and down the ladder if she would have jumped if would have been an interesting story. I will admit there were some funny anecdotes like the time when she described how the President taught his daughter to drive. The book is petty when it came to accusations of other people. An example would be the story with Newt Gingrige, saying how he wouldn't help a bill because Bill Clinton snubbed him at his mother's funeral. I mean are these guys in High School. The worst topic of the book is whitewater. She brings it up again and again and again. I was sick of it when I was less than half way through. She goes over historical points like WACO and the Oklahoma City bombings like they are minor footnotes giving more attention to how Kenneth Starr's indictments were all politically motivated. I figure that she was right when she said that President's shouldn't have to face civil lawsuits while they are in office because these people were in court all the time. I would have like to have heard how she interacted with Janet Reno or if they ever interacted at all, she does mention Madeline Albright a couple of times because they went to the same school. All the people that they knew from Arkansas seemed to be all flim-flam men. At first they were all good and trustworthy but later the author was just shocked and dismayed at how her friends of good character were acting. There are some statements that she makes that I simply do not believe to be true like the time when she said that Bill was trying to get congress to spend more on terrorism and that they should be watching the Muslim charities. I have read several other accounts on this in "The man who warned America", "Sleeping with the Devil" and "Why America Slept". They all told how this administration was doing nothing like that. It was easy to say she was doing this 5 years later with 20/20 hindsight. The thing that drove me a little crazy in this whole story was near the end saying that Bush stole the election. She claimed to be an expert on the constitution but she doesn't understand the election process. Gore won the popular vote but did not get enough electoral votes. This makes the election federally democratic so that on candidate cannot be popular in one section of the country but must be elected by a majority of the states. I learned this in high school and I know Hillary Clinton learned it also because we come from the same city Park Ridge. The part about the impeachment showed how vicious this woman can be. She was vitriolic in her accusation of anyone involved in that process. Man, I would never want to get on her bad side. She was really angry when Ken Starr put his findings on the internet. I would recommend this to any one who believes President Clinton never did anything wrong and was responsible in his job and believe the only woman he fooled around with was Monica Lewinsky. If you don't believe that then you will get very angry when you read this book or listen to the tape.