The Clinton Book
Newsweek, June, 2004 by Michael Isikoff (--With Kathryn Williams)
Presidential memoirs are usually ho-hum affairs. But Bill Clinton was no ordinary president, and his memoir, the much-anticipated "My Life," is no ordinary book: a historic document (Clinton was the first two-term Democratic president since FDR), the Alfred A. Knopf book is also a publishing-industry phenomenon. "My Life" isn't officially released until Tuesday, but it's already No. 1 on Amazon.com. The press release of the former president's "60 Minutes" interview with Dan Rather promoting the book landed on the cover of both New York tabloids on Thursday.
The rollout is vintage Clinton--charming, down home and completely calculated. In speeches and interviews, the former president has coyly hinted at great revelations amid "My Life's" 957 pages. But it's a tease: he shows...
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