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Married to It
... raised by devout Christians in a small town in Arkansas, had already cheated on and dumped her first husband and engaged in love affairs with a handful of men, including a young Bill Clinton, whom she...
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The Change Biopics Need?
... used Bush as a comic foil for their excitable heroes. By comparison, Bill Clinton got off relatively easy--though he did have his own depiction to contend with in 1998’s Primary Colors, an...
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WORKING, STIFFED
... Reagan Democrats who later supported Bill Clinton. As for the economic individualism that Hamilton emphasizes, it frequently coexists with not only cultural conservatism but also a genuine economic...
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PREVARICATION NATION
... anxieties of poststructuralism to those of psychoanalysis. At the beginning, we have the proposition, apropos Monica Lewinsky, that Bill Clinton may have been “the world’s first Lacanian president...
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The Naked and the Daft
... talk to Bill Clinton privately, revealing to him his focus-group findings and persuading the president to dump his own party and support a balanced budget. And what a triumph that was: “It was very...
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Go Start Anew
...” “I see my generation epitomized: a Peter Pan generation nannied by matronly Wendys like Bill and Hillary Clinton, our politics a confusion of Red and Green beneath the black flag of Anarchy; cross...
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Talker in the City
... Colors: A Novel of Politics, the 1996 roman à clef about Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign that Menaker edited while at Random House, is with the A’s for “Anonymous,” in accordance with the...
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Sweet and Sour
... Pennsylvania, maker of those ubiquitous white carryout boxes, she sees a stack of rejects and has possibly the most overblown reaction since the vote to impeach Bill Clinton: “Take-out cartons are meant to...
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It Takes a Crisis
... proponents, particularly in the 1990s, included so many Democratic luminaries: Lawrence Summers, Joseph Stiglitz, George Soros, and Bill Clinton, to name just a few. The Washington Consensus, after all...
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A Million Little Theses
... reliable research in several thousand web pages; what I did find were over ninety citations of a passing reference I made to him in a review I once wrote of Bill Clinton’s autobiography.) Most...
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Thousands of Little Trumps
... I’m tired of Hillary partisans, too—the ones who devote more energy to verbally bludgeoning Clinton’s doubters on the left than to taking on her real enemies on the right. But even if, like me...
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Padma Lakshmi and Salman Rushdie’s Scorched-Earth Marriage Memoirs
... doing model things is any worse than Rushdie’s endless name-dropping in Joseph Anton, with its pointless cameos by Bono, Madonna, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Clinton, and too many others to name, which...
