The Truth About Hillary

出版者:Sentinel Trade

作者:Edward Klein

页数:304

出版时间:2006-05-30

价格:USD 14.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781595230232

具体描述

倍受争议的美国前总统比尔.克林顿的妻子，纽约州参议员，美国民主党2008年总统候选人，所有这些都是希拉里，这个传奇女人的身份。

原版图书《希拉里真相》带您更多的了解其人、其事。

The Truth About Hillary was viciously attacked by the liberal media, because it revealed how the most prominent Democrat in America has lied, bullied, cheated, and manipulated people in her quest to become our first woman president.

Who is the real Hillary Rodham Clinton? She’s a feminist, yet she rode to power on her husband’s coattails. She’s strong and assertive, yet she has put up with decades of infidelity. She inspires fierce loyalty, yet she frequently stabs her followers in the back. She’s a liberal, yet she’s pretending to be a moderate.

This edition includes a fascinating new foreword about Edward Klein’s head-on collision with the Clinton machine and its allies.

Reading this book-instead of just the pre-pub discussion around it-makes one thing perfectly clear: it will not, as has been hoped or feared, do for any Clinton presidential campaign what Unfit For Command did for the Kerry one. This clip & paste job by a former editor of the New York Times magazine is unlikely to change a single mind, let alone vote-to paraphrase the political commentator, conservative Tucker Carlson, readers who already hate lightning-rod Clinton know why they hate her. Those who like her won't find their minds changed by any of the ersatz revelations in this ultimately uninteresting book. Klein, also the author of several books about the Kennedys, conducted some live interviews for this one, but he also borrowed liberally (pun intended) from dozens of published books and articles. What "news" he turns up is too minor to make even Entertainment Tonight: the former First Lady drinks decaffeinated coffee, likes to sleep late in the morning (unlike her early-riser husband) and is self conscious about her thick legs. Oh, and as a Wellesley student in the 1970s, she had lesbian friends and didn't shave her legs or underarms. Klein seems intent on rehashing the rehash in this too-boring-to-even-be-execrable title. While glossing over such provocative-and substantive-Clinton issues as Whitewater, Travel-gate and Vince Foster's suicide, he concentrates nearly half of his 250 pages on-you guessed it-Monica Lewinsky. His central point: Hillary wasn't surprised, as she wrote in her memoir Living History, by an early morning confession from Bill about Monica. She had in fact known about the president's chronic womanizing-and Monica specifically-for some time. Her "wronged wife" act was just that: spin to garner sympathy for her own political ends. It's certainly true that Hillary came through the Monica mess as a more sympathetic character to many voters, but I don't remember Clinton so much as cultivating a wronged wife image as having one thrust upon her by the media. And in any case, who cares? There's no doubt that the Lewinsky affair was embarrassing and hurtful to the then-First Lady; she neither created nor enjoyed it. Besides, who hasn't put a different face on painful personal behavior that somehow went public? Another of Klein's points is that Hillary is ambitious-and that in her quest for power, she has put off lots of people including, he says, the revered late New York senator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his campaign manager wife, Liz. (Moynihan's daughter has denied any problems in her parents' relationship with the senator.) Again, the word that comes to mind is "Duh." I'd be tempted to pull out that old saw about how if Clinton were a man, "ambitious" would be a compliment, but since she's a woman, it's a synonym for that word that rhymes with "rich." I'd do that, but that would be too Klein-ian of me: superficial, clichéd and gender obsessed. But maybe I'm wrong about one thing: perhaps The Truth will change some votes. After reading it, those who've been tepid about the senator might indeed rally around her. After all, Klein makes it clear that any time someone tries to humiliate her publicly, she somehow manages to come out on top.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　-Sara Nelson.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a polarizing figure in American politics. Love her or hate her, everyone has a strong opinion about the former first lady turned senator who is almost certainly going to run for president in 2008. Despite more than a dozen years in the national spotlight and more than a dozen unauthorized books about her, she has managed to keep many secrets from the public-especially about her turbulent marriage and its impact on her career. There have been plenty of rumors about what Hillary and Bill Clinton did behind closed doors, but never a definitive book that exposes the truth. Bestselling author Edward Klein draws on rare access to inside sources to reveal what Hillary knew and when she knew it during her years as first lady, especially during her husband's impeachment. Klein's book will break news about the choices and calculations she has made over the years. It will also prove that she lied to America in her bestselling autobiography Living History. When she was just a little girl, Hillary Rodham dreamed of becoming the first female president, and her lifelong dream is almost within reach. But just as the swift boat veterans convinced millions of voters that John Kerry lacked the character to be president, Klein's book will influence everyone who is sizing up the character of Hillary Clinton.

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我必须承认，这本书的阅读体验是充满挑战的，它要求读者具备相当的耐心和对美国政治史的基本认知，因为它从不迎合那些只想快速了解八卦的轻度读者。 作者采取了一种近乎编年史式的叙事方法，但其深度远超一般的编年史，更像是一部宏大的交响乐，不同的人生主题和政治旋律交织在一起，形成复杂的和声。 最令我赞叹的是其对“信念的演变”这一主题的处理。 书中详细描绘了主角如何从一个理想主义的倡导者，逐步适应和内化了现实政治的规则，这种转变过程没有被简单地标签化为“变节”或“成熟”，而是被拆解成了无数个微小的、充满内在张力的选择点。 这种对内在矛盾的深刻挖掘，使得人物形象异常立体和真实，充满了人性的挣扎与光辉。 文本的排版和用词选择都透露着一种严肃性，句子结构复杂，信息密度极高，需要时不时停下来反思刚刚读到的信息点之间的关联。 这种沉浸式的阅读过程，让时间仿佛都慢了下来。 读完之后，我对政治人物的评价标准都发生了微妙的偏移，我开始更关注他们如何应对压力下的认知失调，而不是他们最终实现了什么承诺。 这本书的厚重感，来自于它对“人”在历史洪流中能动性的审慎评估。

这本书绝对是近年来我读过的最引人入胜的政治传记之一，尽管我带着一种近乎怀疑的态度打开它，但我很快就被作者那种近乎侦探般的细致和对事实毫不妥协的追求所吸引。 叙事节奏把握得恰到好处，从开篇对主角早年经历的侧写，到后期职业生涯的高光与低谷，每一个转折点都如同精心编排的戏剧，让你忍不住想知道“接下来会发生什么”。尤其让我印象深刻的是，作者似乎从未满足于表面信息，而是深入挖掘了大量原始文件和第一手资料，呈现出的不仅仅是一个政治人物的肖像，更像是一部关于权力、理想与现实冲突的社会学研究报告。书中对于政策制定过程的剖析极其深刻，它没有简单地将复杂问题扁平化，而是还原了那些幕后决策者们在信息不完全、时间紧迫的压力下，是如何权衡利弊，最终敲定影响数百万人的决定的。 这种对“过程”的尊重，使得即便是政治立场迥异的读者，也能从中获得极大的智力满足感。 语言风格上，它避免了空洞的赞美或无休止的抨击，而是保持了一种冷静、克制的观察视角，使得最终的结论更具说服力和持久的影响力。 这本书真正做到了剥开光环，直视核心，对于任何想理解现代美国政治运作机制的人来说，都是一份不可多得的蓝图。 读完后，我感觉自己对这个公众人物的认知不再是碎片化的新闻报道拼凑而成，而是有了一个坚实、多维度的理解框架。

读完全书，我的内心久久不能平静，这不仅仅是一本关于某个特定人物的书，它更像是一面时代的反光镜，折射出特定历史时期社会思潮的剧烈碰撞与个体命运的无奈抉择。 作者的笔触极其细腻，仿佛能够穿透时间，让我们真切感受到那个风云变幻的年代里，人们是如何在理想主义的感召和现实政治的泥沼中艰难跋涉的。 尤其欣赏书中对“体制内如何产生变革”这一母题的探讨，它没有提供简单的答案，而是展示了复杂系统内部的惯性、阻力以及偶尔出现的突破口。 叙述的结构非常巧妙，大量运用了对比手法，将主角早期的激进思想与其后来的务实操作进行对照，这种张力极大地丰富了人物的深度，避免了脸谱化的倾向。 那些关于早期法律援助工作的描写，充满了理想主义的热情与初创期的筚路蓝缕，与后期华盛顿的权力游戏形成了鲜明的对比，这种强烈的反差，反而凸显了人性的复杂与环境的塑造力。 语言的运用上，作者展现出一种老派记者的沉稳与力量，句子结构多变，时而如行云流水般舒展，时而如手术刀般精准有力，使得即便是枯燥的政策细节也变得引人入胜。 它迫使读者去思考：在面对结构性困境时，我们真正能改变的是什么？ 这是一本需要反复咀嚼、慢慢消化的作品，它留下的不仅仅是信息，更是深刻的反思。

这本书有一种近乎冷酷的客观性，它似乎刻意避开了所有煽情和主观色彩过浓的表达，力求将一个复杂的政治生涯还原成一系列可供分析的“数据点”。 叙事风格非常像是一份经过严格审查的内部报告，用词精准，逻辑链条如同机械般精密，几乎没有多余的修饰。 我特别关注了其中关于特定时期国内立法斗争的描述，作者似乎投入了巨大的精力去重构每一次关键投票和每一轮艰难谈判的细节，这些细节的堆砌，最终构建出了一个关于“微小胜利如何积累成重大变革”的清晰路径图。 这种专注于具体操作层面的写作手法，极大地增强了文本的实用价值，对于想了解立法技术和权力制衡艺术的读者来说，简直是一份宝藏。 全书的节奏感是平稳而有力的，没有刻意的起伏，但字里行间透露出的力量感，来自于对海量事实的精确掌握和组织能力。 读这本书的过程，就像是在解剖一台精密的仪器，你需要理解每一个齿轮、每一个螺丝钉的作用，才能明白整体是如何运转的。 它要求读者主动去构建意义，而不是被动接受结论。 对于那些厌倦了政治小说化处理的严肃读者来说，这本书无疑提供了一种令人耳目一新的、近乎工程学视角的传记写作典范。

从一个历史爱好者的角度来看，这本书的价值在于它提供了一个绝佳的案例研究，用以剖析权力精英如何通过教育、职业路径和社会网络构建起自己的影响力地图。 它对早期人脉网络和关键导师的梳理细致入微，展现了精英阶层内部的“学徒制”是如何运作的，这比单纯讨论政策本身要来得更为关键。 我特别留意了书中关于不同政治派系之间微妙互动和权力转移的描绘，作者似乎掌握了大量不为人知的内部轶事和会议记录，这些“幕后花絮”极大地增强了故事的可信度和趣味性。 它不是一本简单的传记，它是一部关于“如何攀登”和“如何维持”的实用指南，只是它的主角恰好处于聚光灯下。 语言风格上，这本书采取了一种高度学术化的结构，段落之间逻辑链条极其严密，充满了论点、论据和反驳，读起来像是在跟随一位顶尖的辩论家进行一场思想的交锋。 这使得阅读体验更像是在进行一场智力上的探险，需要读者全神贯注地跟上作者的思路。 唯一让人感到“意犹未尽”的是，作者似乎在某些至关重要的历史节点上，留下了足够的空间供读者自己去填充“为什么”，这种克制既是优点，也让急于求证的人略感焦灼。 总体而言，它成功地将一个公众人物的生平，转化成了一部关于政治生态学的教科书。

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