The journalist who co-wrote the original article breaking the
Monica Lewinsky scandal for the "Washington Post" reveals the
complete story behind the headlines: a riveting, in-depth account
of an event unique in American history -- the first impeachment of
an elected president.
"For all of the titillation about thongs and cigars, the story
of the impeachment and trial of William Jefferson Clinton was not
so much about sex as it was about power. It may have started with
an unseemly rendezvous near the Oval Office, but it mushroomed into
the Washington battle of a generation, ultimately dragging in all
three branches of government....
"Clinton opened his second term vowing to bring the parties
together, to become the 'repairer of the breach.' But the last half
of the presidency demonstrated that the breach was wider than
anyone had anticipated."
-- from the Prologue
With unprecedented access to all the players -- major and minor
-- "Washington Post" reporter Peter Baker reconstructs the
compelling drama that gripped the nation for six critical months:
the impeachment and trial of William Jefferson Clinton. "The
Breach" vividly depicts the mind-boggling political and legal
events as they unfolded, a day-by-day and sometimes hour-by-hour
account beginning August 17, 1998, the night of the president's
grand-jury testimony and his disastrous speech to the nation,
through the House impeachment hearings and the Senate trial, ending
on February 12, 1999, the day of his acquittal. Using 350 original
interviews, confidential investigation files, diaries, and tape
recordings, Baker goes behind the scenes and packs the book with
newsworthy revelations -- the infighting among the president's
advisers, the pressure among Democrats to call for Clinton's
resignation, the secret back-channel negotiations between the White
House and Congress, a tour of the War Room set up by Tom DeLay to
force Clinton out of office, the agonizing of various members of
Congress, the anxiety of lawmakers who feared the exposure of their
own sex lives, and Hillary Clinton's learning that her husband
would admit his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
"The Breach" is contemporary history at its best -- shocking,
revealing, and consequential. It is a tale of how Washington became
lost in "the breach" of its own partisan impulses. All of this, and
much more, makes The Breach one of the most important and
illuminating volumes of history and contemporary politics of our
generation.
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