Read The Truth About Hillary Online
Authors: Edward Klein
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The
Truth About
HILLARY
A L S O B Y E D W A R D K L E I N
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ONFICTION
All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy Just Jackie: Her Private Years
The Kennedy Curse Farewell, Jackie
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OVELS
If Israel Lost the War
(with Robert Littell and Richard Z. Chesnoff)
The Parachutists
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NTHOLOGIES
About Men
(with Don Erikson)
The
Truth About
HILLARY
What She Knew, When She Knew It, And How Far She’ll Go To Become President
Edward Klein
S E N T I N E L
SENTINEL
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For
Karen and Steven, Alec and Julie-Ann, Rob and Ruth, and Melissa and James
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O N T E N T S
Chapter 1: The Impossible Dream
11
Chapter 5: Celestial Ambitions
37
Chapter 10: Grooving at Cozy Beach
68
Chapter 11: The Other “Smoking Gun”
74
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Contents
Chapter 13: A Night to Remember
90
Chapter 14: All the Governor’s Women
93
PART III: THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS
Chapter 15: Her Husband’s Keeper
103
Chapter 19: Hillary’s Brain
125
Chapter 22: The Human Bridge
135
Chapter 23: The Wronged Woman
141
Chapter 24: Run, Hillary, Run!
149
Chapter 25: The Education of Hillary Clinton
153
Chapter 26: Blowing Them Away
158
Chapter 27: “Boob Bait for the Bubbas”
163
Chapter 29: “The Martians Have Landed”
170
Chapter 31: Hillary’s Problem
180
Chapter 32: “A Legend Imploding”
186
Chapter 34: “Pure Hollywood”
194
PART V: THE ROAD BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Chapter 36: “The Perfect Student”
206
Contents
ix
Chapter 38: The 800-Pound Gorilla
214
Chapter 40: Hillary from Chappaqua
224
Chapter 42: Hedging Her Bets
235
Chapter 44: Nixon’s Disciple
249
The
Truth About
HILLARY