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Fools for Scandal (Paperback)

By: Gene Lyons (Author) and Harper's Magazine (Editor)

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"Lyons...shows that many charges against [the Clintons] are exaggerated, politically motivated or flat-out wrong."

"Lyons offers the first fully creditable version of what happened."

"This is a nasty book, not because it challenges the reporting of the Whitewater story, but because it assaults the integrity of the journalists who did the reporting. It is a smear job unworthy of any fair-minded critic of the press. Surely the newspapers got SOMETHING right."

"Lyons sounds like the last sane voice in the din of the asylum."

"An excellent exegesis of Whitewater."

"[His] book, which follows an earlier Harper's Magazine article, adds to the growing and legitimate argument that America's mainstream press, far from being ideological, has simply gone bloodthirsty."

"[Lyons] makes a strong case that the whole Whitewater business is 'possibly the most politically charged case of journalistic malpractice in recent American history.'"

"Lyons makes a strong argument. His book should be uncomfortable reading for the management of the Times and for other big-time media."

Publisher's note

Lyons, a columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, shows how The New York Times led, and the rest of the nation followed, in its coverage of Whitewater. This book examines the motives and the facts that have kept Whitewater in congressional hearings for a record two years and on the front pages of national newspapers since 1992.

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Based partly on a piece for "Harper's" in October of 1994, this book takes on the media's responsibility for the Whitewater scandal. Lyons argues that "New York Times" reporter Jeff Gerth launched an investigation based on little more than innuendo and that the media continued the feeding frenzy.

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