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A Vast Conspiracy
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Editors Select, March 2017 - I was a little too young to fully grasp what was happening back in 1998 when my parents' television seemed like an endless string of talking heads, legal hearings, and sound bites about sexual relations, false allegations, and the evasive definition of the word is. But now - especially now - as an adult, it's impossible not to look at 'Lewinskygate' as anything but a seismic shift - politically and culturally - in our country, with echoes of the scandal still resounding in the bizarre and often confounding headlines of today - something that becomes abundantly clear in Kevin Stillwell's steadfast and honest reading. Toobin's previous book, The Run of His Life, became the basis for the FX show The People v. O.J. Simpson. And with the same no-holds-barred investigative journalism and juicy, legal thriller-like storytelling at work, it's no surprise that A Vast Conspiracy has already been chosen as the source material for American Crime Story's fourth season. Doug, Audible Editor
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In A Vast Conspiracy, the best-selling author of The Run of His Life casts an insightful, unbiased eye over the most extraordinary public saga of our time - the Clinton sex scandals. A superlative journalist known for the skillfulness of his investigating and the power of his writing, Jeffrey Toobin tells the unlikely story of the events that began over doughnuts in a Little Rock hotel and ended on the floor of the United States Senate, with only the second vote on presidential removal in American history. This is an entirely fresh look at the scandal that very nearly brought down a president.
Packed with news-making disclosures and secret documents published here for the first time, Toobin unravels the three strands of a national scandal - those leading from Paula Jones, Kenneth Starr, and Monica Lewinsky - that created a legal, personal, and political disaster for Bill Clinton. A Vast Conspiracy is written with the narrative drive of a sensational (if improbable) legal thriller, and Toobin brilliantly explores the high principle and low comedy that were the hallmarks of the story. From Tripp to Goldberg, Isikoff to Hyde, the complex and tangled motivations behind the scandal are laid bare.
While misguided, outlandish behavior was played out at the very highest level, Toobin analyzes the facts and the key figures with a level of dignity and insight that this story has not yet received. The Clinton scandals will shape forever how we think about the signature issues of our day - sex and sexual harassment, privacy and perjury, civil rights, and, yes, cigars. Toobin's book will shape forever how we think about the Clinton scandals.
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Based on exclusive interviews with justices themselves, The Nine tells the story of the Supreme Court through personalities, from Anthony Kennedy's overwhelming sense of self-importance to Clarence Thomas' well-tended grievances against his critics to David Souter's odd 19th century lifestyle. There is also, for the first time, the full behind-the-scenes story of Bush v. Gore and Sandra Day O'Connor's fateful breach with George W. Bush, the president she helped place in office.
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The Nine
- De Dc en 10-04-07
De: Jeffrey Toobin
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True Crimes and Misdemeanors
- The Investigation of Donald Trump
- De: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
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Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to jail. So did his personal lawyer. His long-time political consigliere was convicted of serious federal crimes, and his national security advisor pled guilty to others. Career intelligence agents and military officers were alarmed enough by the president's actions that they alerted senior government officials and ignited the impeachment process. Yet despite all this, a years-long inquiry led by special counsel Robert Mueller, and the third impeachment of a president in American history, Donald Trump survived to run for re-election. Why?
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More than just a bit misleading.
- De Tim Sharp en 08-14-20
De: Jeffrey Toobin
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American Heiress
- The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
- De: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
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On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the nom de guerre “Tania.”
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Privilege calling privilege privileged
- De Kelley en 08-05-16
De: Jeffrey Toobin
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Contempt
- A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation
- De: Ken Starr
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Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Starr finally shares his definitive account of this period in American history. Now Starr finally shares his unique perspective on the investigation that began with the Whitewater land deal and spread to a wide range of President Clinton's actions, including accusations of sexual harassment and perjury in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Starr's narrative includes behind-the-scenes details that have never before emerged as well as a new analysis from the perspective of history.
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- De Sarah en 09-13-18
De: Ken Starr
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Without a Doubt
- De: Marcia Clark, Teresa Carpenter - contributor
- Narrado por: Marcia Clark
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From the outside, the prosecution's case looked bulletproof, but Marcia Clark knew better. Mountains of physical evidence connected O. J. Simpson to the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman, but that didn't mean it would be easy. For the woman charged with prosecuting the "Trial of the Century", the light of fame would glow white hot, as the media scrutinized her strategy, her family, even her hair. As the case spun out of control, Marcia Clark stood tall.
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Marcia On Point!
- De DAUGHTRY74 en 04-29-16
De: Marcia Clark, y otros
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Too Much Money
- A Novel
- De: Dominick Dunne
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee, Nicholas Hormann
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My name is Gus Bailey...It should be pointed out that it is a regular feature of my life that people whisper things in my ear, very private things, about themselves or others. I have always understood the art of listening. The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. His propensity for gossip has finally gotten him into troubl - $11 million worth. His problems begin when he falls hook, line, and sinker for a fake story from an unreliable source and repeats it on a radio program.
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- De RKNS en 01-19-10
De: Dominick Dunne
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American Midnight
- The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
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From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor
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Disturbing yet Reassuring
- De Sams95 en 11-18-22
De: Adam Hochschild
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Cue the Sun!
- The Invention of Reality TV
- De: Emily Nussbaum
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
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Who invented reality television, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why can’t we look away? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of “dirty documentary”—from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump—Emily Nussbaum unearths the origin story of the genre that ate the world, as told through the lively voices of the people who built it. At once gimlet-eyed and empathetic, Cue the Sun! explores the morally charged, funny, and sometimes tragic consequences of the hunt for something real inside something fake.
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Weak, semi-unconnected stories
- De KDN en 07-20-24
De: Emily Nussbaum
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Vast Conspiracy
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- KathPoole
- 04-10-17
Non-Fiction as opposed to Creative Non-Fiction
Would you try another book from Jeffrey Toobin and/or Kevin Stillwell?
Not sure.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
The book begins by listing a dozen or so players. Not interesting reading. It then continues with more names. Names of Paula Jones co-workers, family and an army of lawyers, all named. Then there were her hangers-on and a host of new lawyers which must be named. I'm only half way through the book and don't know that I have the fortitude to go on. All reporters have been named, then all the lawyers for Monica, Bill and all his White House staff. All the lawyers for the Star Investigation - named.
He gave us verbatim transcripts of Linda Tripp's phone calls with Monica, one even included all the "um's". Also, he uses verbatim court transcripts. This book is not creative non-fiction.
Could you see A Vast Conspiracy being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
I hope not.
Any additional comments?
By the time we got to the Monica part, I didn't care anymore.
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- 04-22-17
will not change minds
Would you listen to A Vast Conspiracy again? Why?
Yes I would, with added books from figures on both sides of the issue.Regardless of what you may think about this impeachment i would like to know more through the eyes of those who lived it.Like the Clinton Wars by Sidney Blumenthal, I am not aware of any book by a member of the Republican Party who was involved. But I would be the first to buy both books if they were made available by audible.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
The set of one in a million coincidences that made events happen as they did.
Have you listened to any of Kevin Stillwell’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No, but my five star rating speaks for itself.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
No, but depending on how you feel about certain subjects, I can see someone having either reaction.
Any additional comments?
I would recommend this book to any adult who is curious about modern history.
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- Liz
- 06-27-17
Excellent look at a story everyone knows
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Toobin's take on Clinton and the Lewinsky story is fascinating. Everyone is a user and a liar. Everyone feels like a victim. The whole sordid mess is dissected and the blame for how it got so out of hand is clearly laid at almost every participant's feet. Fascinating.
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- Chance Moody
- 12-11-21
Nostalgic
I was 17-18 when all of this happened, I remember watching it on the news and it was the only thing you’d see on tv. The book is crazy detailed about the truth and details nobody ever even considered. It’s a very interesting and informative book.
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- in1ear (John Row)
- 03-31-17
Insight into Why the Clintons are Targeted
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would. Bill Clinton is a favorite President of mine. Flawed certainly. Why, oh why just not say "Yeah, it happened. Monica is just ...a really close associate".I found explanation for the numerous and ongoing assaults on the Clintons. Unfounded if you're Liberal, slam dunk proven if you're Conservative. The "truth" is based on what news network you listen to. Which may be the biggest cause of the issues the country faces and has for a long while.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
The process leading up to the intimate incidents, up to almost destroying a political career.
Which character – as performed by Kevin Stillwell – was your favorite?
This is a nonfiction narrative. Mr. Stillwell did a fine job in that respect. No one stands out as "favorite". I deducted a star because there is an acoustics issue. I found myself straining to listen and understand. Almost like sound absorbing material is clipping the hard syllables. More a technical thing. Do you hear it?
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I looked forward to listening to Toobin's book. It was a strong event when I watched and read while it transpired.
Any additional comments?
I mention that I'm a Liberal. I think I picked up a pro Clinton slant in the book. A Conservative may argue that it is enough to dismiss the book. In my opinion, there is enough insight and timeline material to explain what happened so a reader can make his or her own judgement. Don't be put off that the first chapter is a list of the players. The story reads in an informative, appropriate pace.
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- Margaret Cooper
- 04-13-17
Doesn't work as an audio book
Toobin is a great writer, but this just does not work as an audio book and I wish I never bought it.
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- Hebern
- 09-23-21
The case for Clinton
This is the book that the new series on the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal is based. I followed it all closely at the time, but this book did include information that I never knew. It was interesting listening to it with more than 20 years of perspective. It is not an unbiased book. Toobin does lay out the facts both for and against Clinton, but then makes the case that Clinton was treated unfairly. I didn’t buy that then and I don’t buy it now. Just because the investigators are out to get you, it does not negate the criminal acts you actually committed. I probably wouldn’t be a favorite of impeached Presidents because I would have voted to remove both Clinton and Trump at their impeachment trials. That puts me in a small minority. It seems for most their votes depend on their party affiliation. There are many of the people in this book who look way worse in the time that has passed due to their their inconsistent positions. Lindsey Graham is a prime example. But, there are others who are made to be partisan hacks in this book, who have shown that wasn’t necessarily so in the time that has passed. The two biggest examples are George Conway and Bill Kristol. Both were depicted in this book as Clinton haters willing to go to great lengths to take him down. Both were also very vocal critics of Trump, showing that their Clinton “hate” had a lot more to do with not wanting a person they considered to have low morals in the White House than strictly the political vendetta depicted here. It’s amazing reading any political book how often you see the bit players from 20 or even 30 years ago being the political major players of today. There is a lot of that here. And given the last 4 years, it’s clear that both Democrats and Republicans learned “lessons” from the Clinton investigation that they put to destructive use during the Trump administration. It is an enjoyable book with a good reader for the audio version.
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- M. Miles
- 11-27-17
Filled in Lots of Details
I don't normally read this type of book but heard Rachel Maddow recommend it. Glad it was available on Audible. Listened to it at 1.25+ speed which helped. Like most Americans I knew lots of stuff about the Pres. Bill and Ms. Lewinsky saga. But, I didn't know lots of the details or about the politics of it. Listening to this book, I learned a whole lot. I'm very glad I listened to this book by Jeffrey Toobin.
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- D. Martin
- 12-16-19
Why bother when you already know how it’ll end?
As I write this in December 2019, it’s become quite fashionable to review various memorable historical examples of presidential crimes and misdemeanors. Watergate is the most obvious choice, but there are plenty of other possibilities: perhaps Iran-Contra is more similar to the Ukraine mess, or maybe the Andrew Johnson impeachment is the better analog for Trump. Even the Whiskey Ring has generated a little attention, but I've waited in vain for any sign of renewed interest in Teapot Dome. Still, as an impeachment trial that everyone already knows the outcome to has swung into high gear, I decided the time had finally come learn about Monicagate.
Is this the best Clinton Impeachment book out there? I can’t tell you; it’s the only one I read. Overall, it was quite a smooth listen. But is there any point in learning all the details of an impeachment when you already know the ending? By choosing to write this book, Toobin has proven that he’s biased on this question, the correct answer to which is no. I recommend that you not read this book, and stop reading this review right now. From here on out, you only have yourself to blame.
The book spends most of its time setting up the pieces of the impeachment, so that the actual senate trial ends up a bit of an afterthought, taking only about 15 minutes. Overall, this is quite effective, and I have petitioned Chief Justice Roberts to take the same strategy in next month’s senate trial. The bulk of the book follows the Starr inquiry, going through his investigations into Whitewater, Travelgate, campaign finance, and the Vince Foster suicide; as well as the Paula Jones lawsuit. Toobin does review Alan Dershowitz’s famous assertion that Bill Clinton should have defaulted in the Paula Jones case, and that his not doing so was the single greatest legal blunder of the 20th century. Toobin’s take: This was an inspired, if absolutely insane idea. What were Paula Jones’ motivations in all this? There were plenty of opportunities when she could have made out better than she ultimately did, getting about $200,000. Certainly some of Jones' allies understood clearly from the beginning that the real goal was never to win the suit, but rather to get some dirt on Bill Clinton. Jones didn't seem to want this exactly at first, but like many of the characters in this story, as the fight dragged on, she seemed to lose track of her own incentives and become more fixated on hurting her opponent.
The best example of this phenomenon is probably Ken Starr and the Lewinsky immunity deal. Lewinsky’s lawyer, Alan Ginsburg, had negotiated full immunity (which for technical reasons is called “transactional immunity”) against charges that she had lied in her deposition in the Jones Case about having sex with Clinton, i.e., literally the exact same high crime as Clinton's. Now, everyone agreed that it would be crazy to prosecute a 22-year old for lying about a consensual relationship she had had—with the president no less—in a lawsuit to which she wasn’t even party, which was probably why the Office of the Independent Counsel faxed (faxes!) a transactional immunity deal to Lewinsky for her to sign and return, which she did. At this point, Alan Ginsburg performed his eponymous act, the Full Ginsburg, going on all five of the Washington Sunday Morning Shows. He said something that hurt Ken Starr’s feelings, at which point Starr refused to countersign the immunity deal his office had sent. Ginsburg, sensibly enough, sued Starr, arguing that if a federal prosecutor sends you an immunity deal on government stationary, they can’t just call backsies. As Toobin puts it, Starr probably would have done better to lose this action, but he didn’t, so instead he spent the next several months of mid-1998 trying to make the case that Clinton had lied about having sex with Lewinsky without Lewinsky’s testimony. Again, all because he was upset with something Lewinsky’s lawyer had said on TV! Eventually, Monica hired a different lawyer and got essentially the same immunity they had agreed to months earlier. At this point, Starr got the blue dress, subpoenaed Bill Clinton to testify, withdrew the subpoena in exchange for a voluntary 4-hour interview, and then rushed out his report just in time for the 1998 midterms. Or maybe the whole thing was Starr’s plan all along to get the report out at what he thought would be just the right moment to help Republicans in the election, showing once more what a political hack he was. That’s the thing about the Clinton impeachment: it’s all open to interpretation.
Probably the best reason to read this book is to pin down all the fun little sordid details that, if you're like me, you remember only vaguely. Yes, Lewinsky performed oral sex on Clinton while he was on the phone with congressmen, on multiple occasions. Yes, he stuck a cigar in her (Audible wants me to remove the last word from this sentence; it works without it). On the day they met, she lifted up her shirt to show him the top of her thong. But really the details don’t matter, and the caricatures of the main characters are all spot-on: Lewinsky is comically naïve and love-addled, Ken Starr is an obsessed political operative badly feigning legal detachment, Paula Jones is low-class and under the sway of savvier operators, Linda Tripp is a monster, and Bill Clinton is a sleazy lying politician.
I would be remiss in this review if I failed to mention Toobin's central thesis for the book, which is that starting around the 1970s, lawyers began a sort of stealth takeover of American politics (the real vast conspiracy). They did this, according to Toobin, through two strategies: first, using targeted litigation to select and elevate the cases they wanted in order to set the right precedents and thereby change the law through the legal rather than the legislative process; and second, by targeting uncooperative politicians with legal harassment through nuisance lawsuits and prosecutions. Frankly, despite Toobin’s best effort to convince me otherwise, these still seem like two distinct threads to me, rather than like two sides of the same coin. The second is a fair enough description of what happened to Bill Clinton; the first enters into the story mainly as background about the evolution of sexual harassment law. Perhaps Toobin is correct about the arc of late-20th century law and politics, but frankly it seemed more like the topic of the book he wished he were writing, rather than an organic takeaway from the Clinton saga.
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- Blake Brown
- 10-11-22
who knew
we all should have known. I had no idea that it really was a vast conspiracy. the sheer number of people embroidered in this horrible time was mind-blowing. I had just finished Maggie haberman's book on Trump, and then I red this book. they're certainly is way too many sleaze balls in politics.
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