The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories is a critical biography about certain episodes during the administration of former United States president Bill Clinton by English author and investigative journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.
The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories
The book, published in 1997 by Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C, an imprint of Eagle Publishing caused controversy in the USA. Evans-Pritchard, the author, at the time was chief editor in Washington DC for the Sunday Telegraph. In particular, the book investigates the death of former deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster.
Evans-Pritchard had initially intended the book to be titled The Secret History of the Clinton Presidency, in reference to Secret History, a sixth-century book by Procopius of Caesarea "about Justinian and Theodora and the wicked things that went on in the Byzantine court - the salacious gossip and terrible goings-on and murders and so forth".[1]
In Clinton's America, Evans-Pritchard alleged: "The way American reporters cover Arkansas is exactly the way they covered Nicaragua, which is they didn't go out into the hills and talk to ordinary people."[citation needed]
Reactionedit
Evans-Pritchard's work has been criticized as: "little more than wild flights of conspiratorial fancy coupled with outrageous and wholly uncorroborated allegations", although Robert Novak defends Evans-Pritchard as: "...being no conspiracy-theory lunatic.... [H]e was known in Washington for accuracy, industry and courage."[4]
However, long-time Clinton defender Gene Lyons, columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and author of Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater (Franklin Square Press, 1996), says in an article: 'When necessary, Evans-Pritchard resorts to even more questionable methods. The temptation, in addressing so manifestly absurd and error-filled a piece of work, is to raillery. In form, Evans-Pritchard's book is a feverish concatenation of what his countryman, Guardian Washington correspondent Martin Walker, calls "the Clinton legends" into one vast, delusional epic.'[3]
Referencesedit
^"The Coming Storm | 1. The Dead Body". BBC Radio 4. 4 January 2022.
^. zpub.com. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021.
^ ab. Salon. 23 December 1997. Archived from the original on 25 November 2007. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
^FindArticles: News Publications: Insight on the News, Dec 15, 1997 by John Berlau Retrieved 1 July 2010
External linksedit
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Transcript (abbreviated) of C-Span interview from 26 October 1997
[2] Audio of telephone conversation of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard with Reed Irvine from October 28, 1995
November 15, 2023
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