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  • print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2016

    Still Bill

    Joe Conason’s biography of Bill Clinton • Tom Carson

    ... in an eyeblink. As usual, though, Bill Clinton is sui generis, comparable only to Teddy Roosevelt in his outsize presence and ongoing political impact sixteen years after his presidency. Hence Joe...

  • print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2016

    Unfree Radical

    A biography attempts to solve the conundrums of the Patricia Hearst kidnapping • Susan Choi

    ... during the campaign for her pardon (which she finally got from Bill Clinton, in 2001), but it has never touched the core of her story. Far more interesting, at least to this reader, is the problem of...

  • print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2016

    Society and the Spectacle

    A study of media technology in four presidential elections • J. Hoberman

    ... screen performer, exploited the televised photo op in 1984. Bill Clinton recognized the power of MTV. With the rise of social media, Barack Obama had YouTube, Hillary Clinton has, in a negative sense...

  • papertrail • June 09, 2016

    The nine lives of Bill Simmons; the billion-dollar Broadway musical

    ...The Hollywood Reporter profiles Bill Simmons, the popular sportswriter, podcaster, and TV personality who founded...

  • print • June/July/Aug 2016

    An Underclass of Their Own

    Nancy Isenberg’s cultural history of America’s poor southern whites • Chris Lehmann

    ... like Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton acceded to the highest office in the land, and a suburbanized middle-class mass culture started to evince a nostalgia for the more colorful...

  • print • June/July/Aug 2016

    The Right Stuff

    How the conservative movement has spent and organized its way into power • Bruce Bartlett

    ... positive vision for government. It was the Democrat Bill Clinton, not a Republican, who famously declared in his 1996 State of the Union address that “the era of big government is over.” Political...

  • print • Apr/May 2015

    Terrible Swift Swords

    A new history argues that the culture wars will rage on indefinitely • Elizabeth Breunig

    ... themselves in the furor over Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. Hartman likewise fleshes out his discussion of hip-hop and rap by channeling both the mood of protest infusing the new genre and...

  • papertrail • February 08, 2016

    Megyn Kelly's memoir; the last days of St Mark's Bookshop

    ... In an interview with Bill Maher on Friday, author Gloria Steinem, who is pro–Hillary Clinton, implied that women who support Bernie Sanders are just trying to meet men. “When you’re young, you...

  • print • Feb/Mar 2016

    Technically, a Utopia

    Fighting for a feminist future in Silicon Valley and beyond • Sarah Leonard

    ... the Right (and Bill Clinton’s center). They are oppressed as women, but also because they are poor. You can’t fix that by changing your attitude--or by improving your CV. In 2013, as the British...

  • print • Feb/Mar 2016

    On Message

    A history of how American presidents became pitchmen • David Kusnet

    ... presidencies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. While noting that Obama has added a White House videographer and a Twitter feed, Greenberg does not explore the far-reaching implications of...

  • print • Dec/Jan 2015

    The Audacity of Hope

    A new bio treats a pioneer of comedy as a relic of cultural conservatism • Ben Schwartz

    ... Garry Wills’s John Wayne’s America or Sean Wilentz’s Bob Dylan in America. For a comedian who hosted one of FDR’s White House Correspondents’ dinners and golfed with Bill Clinton, there are deeper...

  • papertrail • July 02, 2015

    Publishers Weekly tells Bill O'Reilly not to be sad

    ...Publishers Weekly gently addresses Bill O...