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Informationen zum Autor Christopher Hitchens was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, Slate , and the Atlantic , and the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and George Orwell. He also wrote the international bestsellers god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything , Hitch-22: A Memoir , and Arguably . He died in December 2011. Klappentext New foreword by Douglas Brinkley No One Left to Lie To, a New York Times bestseller, was scandalous when first published in 1999. With a wicked sense of humor, razor-blade indictments, idiopathic anger, high élan, and a wheelbarrow full of undisputable facts on par with Norman Mailer¿s The Presidential Papers and Hunter S. Thompson¿s Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ¿72, Christopher Hitchens makes the case that President Bill Clinton, the so-called New Democrat, with the help of his Machiavellian-Svengali consultant Dick Morris, aimed to maintain personal power at any cost by making promises to the Left while delivering to the Right."By far the best of all the books on the Clinton era." -Edward Said, Al-Ahram Weekly Zusammenfassung "Just as the necessary qualification for a good liar is a good memory, so the essential equipment of a would-be lie detector is a good timeline, and a decent archive." In No One Left to Lie To , a New York Times bestseller, Christopher Hitchens casts an unflinching eye on the Clinton political machine and offers a searing indictment of a president who sought to hold power at any cost. With blistering wit and meticulous documentation, Hitchens masterfully deconstructs Clinton's abject propensity for pandering to the Left while delivering to the Right, and he argues that the president's personal transgressions were ultimately inseparable from his political corruption. Hitchens questions the president's refusals to deny accusations of rape by reputable women and lambasts, among numerous impostures, his insistence on playing the race card, the shortsightedness of his welfare bill, his ludicrous war on drugs, and his abandonment of homosexuals in the form of the Defense of Marriage Act. Opportunistic statecraft, crony capitalism, "divide and rule" identity politics, and populist manipulations-these are perhaps Clinton's greatest and most enduring legacies. ...
