Memoir puts Clinton back in the spotlight

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NEW YORK (AFP) — Bill Clinton fever gripped New York ahead of the release of the former president's autobiography, whose scandal-fuelled content looks set to shoot it straight to the top of the bestseller lists.

The midnight launch of the 957-page "My Life" has taken on the trappings of a presidential campaign, with Clinton going back on the stump, criss-crossing the United States over the next month to promote the book.

While leaked details of the memoir in the press have paid lip-service to Clinton's writings on Osama bin Laden, North Korea and the Middle East, most attention has remained firmly focused on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

The book covers Clinton's childhood, ascendancy to the White House and two-term presidency, but it is the personal side of...