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A Vast Conspiracy

The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President

About The Book

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
It was the most extraordinary public saga of our time, and Jeffrey Toobin gives us a definitive history of the ordeal that very nearly brought down a president. Here is the whole story of the Clinton sex scandals -- from its beginnings in a Little Rock hotel to its climax on the floor of the United States Senate with only the second vote on presidential removal in American history. Rich with Shakespearean characters and dramatic secrets, fueled with the high octane of a sensational legal thriller, and tinged by misguided, outlandish behavior that was played out at the very highest levels, Toobin's A Vast Conspiracy brings a dignity and integrity to this story that it has never before received.
The Clinton sex scandals will shape forever how we think about the signature issues of our day -- sex, privacy, civil rights, and, yes, cigars. A Vast Conspiracy will shape forever how we think about the Clinton scandals.

About The Author

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Jeffrey Toobin is the New York Times bestselling author of American Heiress, The Oath, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Too Close to Call, A Vast Conspiracy, The Run of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, and Opening Arguments. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he lives with his family in New York.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Touchstone (October 13, 2000)
  • Length: 448 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780743204132

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Raves and Reviews

Thomas Powers The New York Times Book Review An admirably clear, vigorously written, plain-spoken and common-sensical book.

Anthony Lewis The New York Review of Books A superb work of factual and legal analysis....Few novels are as gripping.

People A story as taut and surprising as any thriller....Unimpeachable page-turner.

David Kaiser The Boston Globe An irresistibly readable new overview of the whole ugly case.

The Economist A good read...a brave book.

Floyd Abrams The New York Observer A superlatively researched and written book.

Wayne Woodlief Boston Herald A richly detailed narrative...[and] a fascinating read.

Michael Coffey Publishers Weekly Toobin has risen to the challenge of rendering the chaos of the impeachment, what led up to it and its denouement, in a sharp prose style and in a manner that makes sense of a disastrous phase of American political history.

Sherryl Connelly Daily News Compulsively readable....A Vast Conspiracy delivers new information, provides arresting perspective and is a helluva read for all that.

Chicago Sun-Times A rich and readable reprise of the Clinton scandals by the New Yorker writer who shows brilliantly how the American legal system spun out of control.

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