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Ah the good ol days when a President having an extramarital affair with a consenting adult was our nation's biggest scandal.
Toobin is good at breaking down legalese for the rest of us. As he did in Run Of His Life, he shows the maneuvering of powers that converged in an unlikely way for a trial that descended into farce. But unlike the OJ Simpson trial, which took time to get there, Clinton's was ridiculous from the beginning.
There are numerous people here, each with their own agenda and Toobin lends honesty and clarity to each of them. There were no winners in this scandal; everyone came off bad (except, perhaps for Monica Lewinsky who was used for her body by the President and harassed and bullied by his desperate adversaries in the Starr office). Though Toobin cuts through the bs to show that Clinton was railroaded, he also gives equal measure to Clinton's hubris and that of his lawyers. It's as evenhanded of a portrayal as one can expect.
Toobin is good at breaking down legalese for the rest of us. As he did in Run Of His Life, he shows the maneuvering of powers that converged in an unlikely way for a trial that descended into farce. But unlike the OJ Simpson trial, which took time to get there, Clinton's was ridiculous from the beginning.
There are numerous people here, each with their own agenda and Toobin lends honesty and clarity to each of them. There were no winners in this scandal; everyone came off bad (except, perhaps for Monica Lewinsky who was used for her body by the President and harassed and bullied by his desperate adversaries in the Starr office). Though Toobin cuts through the bs to show that Clinton was railroaded, he also gives equal measure to Clinton's hubris and that of his lawyers. It's as evenhanded of a portrayal as one can expect.