No one knows more about the inner Bill Clinton—and is willing to talk about it—than Dick Morris. From his days as Arkansas governor through the planning of his triumphant reelection in 1996, Clinton was an open book to Morris, his most valued political adviser. Now, in the wake of Clinton’s megabestseller My Life, Morris sets the record straight with this chapter-and-verse corrective.
Just as he did with Hillary Clinton in this year’s bestselling Rewriting History, Morris reexamines every highlight of the former President’s massive, exhausting, self-indulgent autobiography. Filling in the parts of the story that Clinton left unmentioned, Morris addresses the many questions left by this endlessly contradictory politician:
• Is he the passionate advocate for individual responsibility, or a poster boy for self-indulgence
• The innocent victim of Republican persecution, or a cunning conman who carelessly danced on the edge of public and private morality
• The dedicated opponent of international terror, or the signal man asleep at the switch
• The product of a difficult childhood who internalized his anger, or a rage-filled partisan lashing out at anyone in his way
Scrutinizing Clinton’s 900-page book—and his even bigger personality—Dick Morris (and his wife, Eileen McGann) will reveal the true Bill Clinton: sophisticated yet crass, thoughtful yet reckless, torn permanently between ambition and self-destruction. Sure to fascinate and infuriate readers of all stripes, Because He Could is a fair and full-bodied portrait of a man for whom “All of the Above” are words to live by.
About the Author :
Dick Morris served as Bill Clinton’s political consultant for twenty years. A regular political commentator on Fox News and other networks, he is the author of seven NEW YORK TIMESbestsellers (all with Eileen McGann).
