No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton
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By far the best of all the books on the Clinton era. - Edward Said
In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed and morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which shows that Clinton was at once philanderer and philistine, crooked and corrupt, Hitchens challenges perceptions - of liberals and conservatives alike - of this highly divisive figure.
With blistering wit and meticulous documentation, Hitchens masterfully deconstructs Clinton's abject propensity for pandering to the Left while delivering to the Right and argues that the president's personal transgressions were inseparable from his political corruption.
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens was born April 13, 1949, in England and graduated from Balliol College at Oxford University. The father of three children, he was the author of more than twenty books and pamphlets, including collections of essays, criticism, and reportage. His book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award and an international bestseller. His bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. The New York Times named his bestselling omnibus Arguably one of the ten best books of the year. A visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School in New York City, he was also the I.F. Stone professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a columnist, literary critic, and contributing editor at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Slate, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, New Statesman, World Affairs, and Free Inquiry, among other publications. Following his death, Yoko Ono awarded him the Lennon-Ono Grant for Peace.
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Reviews for No One Left to Lie To
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The paperback edition, subtitled "the values of the worst family", has an additional chapter, and deals more with Hillary, and also deals more Bill Clinton's tendency towards sexual assault (and Hillary's complicity in it). It's an attack, a justified attack, on Clinton from the Left. Once you understand the man, and his wife, you might just wonder why liberals have such a hard on for these illiberal self serving monsters.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While a lot of the evidences put forth by Hitchens in this short expose did seem somewhat circumstantial, chapters 5 (Clinton's War Crimes) and 6 (Is There a Rapist in the Oval Office?) completely made up for the logical stretches and correlations made early on in the book.
The corroborating accounts of specific cruelties endured, each made by women who had no possible knowledge of each other's experiences and had nothing whatsoever to gain from lying,
makes it a near certainty that Clinton was indeed a big ole bag of dicks, and most probably a rapist on at least a few occasions.
However, the credibility of this book would've benefited from a writing style less inflammatory than Hitchens' usual style. It wouldn't have been nearly as enjoyable a read if he had chosen a more straightforward approach though. I've always thought of his writing as somewhat masturbatory, which obviously makes it a great deal of fun when you agree with him. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hitchens, ever the iconoclast, lays into Bill Clinton with the ferocity of Mike Tyson in his 1980s prime. Actually, that’s unfair – it’s more like the considered, thorough pasting Lennox Lewis doled out which confirmed Tyson as a thoroughly spent force. Clinton, like Obama, rode to power by tapping into an electoral reservoir of hope, of a need for change after more than a decade of a Republican government. Hitchens paints his electoral tactics there as dirty and thoroughly cynical. He covers the obvious Lewinsky affair but finds it part of a pattern rather than a one off. His time in the Oval Office is portrayed as being dedicated to self-enrichment at the expense of the little people who elected him and ultimately a betrayal of the hopes he was elected on. It often comes across that Hitchens’ ire is down to the waste of a chance for genuine change, instead entrenching the neoliberal consensus established by Reagan and Bush. Essentially Clinton’s version of politics is seen as bleak, based on a cynical exploitation of hope, dreams and the better side of human nature. As with so much of Hitchens it’s an enlightening read which runs counter to the more sanitised version of history, though it’s only one side of the story.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I love Cristopher Hitchens but I was disappointed by this book. This is not a journalism. This is an uninterrupted flow of hatred. Hatred that doesn't stop with Clinton but spills over to all around him. All the points made in the book notwithstanding - and it's scary if even some of them are true - I can't consider it seriously. It's just one-sided to the extreme.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5turgid writing but interesting. sad but true
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I was a big Clinton supporter. A person who said, I didn't care what he did with his private life as long as he did a good job as President. Yeah, I wished he was less military than he was. Yeah, I wished he hadn't supported DOMA or kowtowed to the military about gays in it, or given up on universal health care, but he was still the best president since Jimmy Carter, and I was proud of the way he boosted the economy. I thought he was generally a pretty good guy.This book ruined him for me a bit. I still think all those things, but now I know he wasn't really a good guy. He's a rapist, plain and simple. It doesn't negate his accomplishments, or make me wish he'd never been president at all, but it does keep me from wanting to hang up a picture of him in my home that I used to think I would hang up eventually.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5"This little book has no `hidden agenda.' It is offered in the most cheerful and open polemical spirit, as an attack on a crooked president and a corrupt and reactionary administration" (1).So says Christopher Hitchens in the preface. All though it may be the case that the book is cheerful and polemical it is also, I'm afraid to say, fairly clumsy and transparently superficial.Hitchens begins in the preface with the possibility that Clinton may have impregnated and African American woman during his term as Governor in Arkansas only to drop the implication based on the relevant DNA data. Hitchens has proven nothing here; he has merely introduced what we already know; Clinton's sexual infidelities and callous disregard for his family and other females along the way.-The majority of this slim book seeks to prove that Clinton in fact raped who was never given a fair hearing. Hitchens more or less accepts her testimony out of hand because he believes she is a good and honorable person and has not "agenda" in making up such dribble. Hmmm....Oh that's right, no one could ever gain anything from being associated in a sex scandal with the President (see Monica's story).-But there is a deeper problem with this complaint. The president's sexual behavior has nothing to do with the relevant political factors of his leadership and diplomacy. If Clinton is guilty of sexual assault then he should be tried as an ordinary citizen. But Hitchens' evidence is merely from second-hand testimony at best, and at worst it is derived from an awkward transcript of an interview with Al Gore in which he refused to comment.-The only worth while material in this book is Chapter 5, Clinton's War crimes. In it he discusses Clinton's bombing of the Al-Shifa plant in Khartoum in 1998, a clear war crime based on the evidence presented. I urge you to check this book out of the library, skip the sexual babble, and turn to this section as it is one of the view discussions on the topic aside from Noam Chomsky's comments in 9/11, which Hitchens would later blast him for as surprising as that sounds.