BLOOD SPORT: The President and His Adversaries

Remember Whitewater? Well, yes, that was about 11 Clinton scandals ago, and less serious than some of its successors. In this book, James B. Stewart, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his book about the Boesky-Milken days on Wall Street, Den of Thieves, provides a unified, novelistic account of the Clintons' Arkansas financial wheeling-dealing. It is useful reading in that it serves up the tell-tale psychology that, no doubt, is behind all the Clinton controversies: Bill and Hillary's desire to make big money (legally) without being seen as the kind of people who would try to.