Boy Clinton

by R. Emmett Tyrrell

No one has done more to unearth the truth about Bill Clinton's character and career than R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., and his magazine, The American Spectator. Now, Tyrrell draws all the known facts about Clinton -- plus many never before revealed -- into the most comprehensive and illuminating biography ever written about a sitting U.S. President. Tyrrell traces the formative influence on the young, fatherless Clinton of the hustlers and rogues who populated his boyhood hometown of Hot Springs (not Hope), Arkansas. Tyrrell shows how the influence-peddlers who dominated Arkansas politics served as Clinton's real political mentors and role models. And he explains how these factors combined with Clinton's '60s-era radicalism to create a new, more dangerous type of career politician. Tyrrell reports dozens of fresh revelations about both Bill and Hillary Clinton, and sheds important new light on their activities in Arkansas and Washington. He presents strong evidence, for instance, that Clinto