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Carl Bernstein writes biography of Hillary Clinton
Reuters ^ | Mon Apr 23, 2007

Posted on 04/23/2007 1:42:29 PM PDT by COUNTrecount

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, who with Bob Woodward helped expose the Watergate scandal, has spent eight years researching the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton and will publish a 640-page biography of her in June, the publisher said on Monday.

The book, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf, is called "A Woman in Charge: the Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton" and will have a first printing of 350,000 copies in the United States, a Knopf spokesman said.

He added that the size of the first printing was very high indicating that Knopf expected the book to be a best-seller at a time when Clinton, a Democratic U.S. senator from New York and wife of former President Bill Clinton, is one of the front-runners in the battle to win the Democratic presidential nomination.

Bernstein, known for his investigative reporting, interviewed more than 200 people, including friends, colleagues and adversaries of Clinton's for the book, which covers her life up through the decision to run for the presidency.

The Knopf spokesman said Bernstein did not interview Clinton or her husband for the book although he has had contact with them over the years.

Sonny Mehta, chairman and editor-in-chief of the Knopf Publishing Group, said in a statement: "Hillary Clinton is one of the most compelling figures in the world today ... and Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait shows us, for the first time, the true trajectory of her life and career.

"I believe his book will stand as the most detailed, comprehensive, and revealing account we have of a woman who helped define one presidency and may well step into another."

In the book, to hit stores on June 19, Bernstein explores Clinton's complex relationship with her disciplinarian father, examines the early development of her deep religious feelings and looks at her courtship with Bill Clinton and the dynamic of their marriage, Knopf said in a statement.

Alfred A. Knopf is the flagship imprint of the Knopf Publishing Group, a division of Random House Inc., whose parent company is Bertelsmann AG, the German media giant.


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1 posted on 04/23/2007 1:42:33 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Save your dress, Carl.


2 posted on 04/23/2007 1:44:06 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Why do I expect a slobbering kiss on the wide butt of Hillary by Carl “Brown Nose” Bernstein?


3 posted on 04/23/2007 1:45:50 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: dead

LOL.


4 posted on 04/23/2007 1:46:13 PM PDT by eureka! (The 'rats have made their choice in the WOT and honest history will not be kind...)
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To: dead

Tony Dungy’s memoir, Quiet Strength, releases July 10. It can be pre-ordered at www.coachdungy.com. Let’s help push this book.


5 posted on 04/23/2007 1:46:58 PM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: dead

“Bill was just administering to youth”

What an American heroine she is.


6 posted on 04/23/2007 1:48:31 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: COUNTrecount

Roger Morris’s “Partners in Power” remains the last word in biography for both Clintons as far as I’m concerned:
http://www.amazon.com/Partners-Power-Clintons-Their-America/dp/0895263025


7 posted on 04/23/2007 1:49:28 PM PDT by Ozone34
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To: COUNTrecount

examines the early development of her deep religious feelings and looks at her courtship with Bill Clinton and the dynamic of their marriage

What a load.

You know, Sheryl Crow wants to conserve toilet paper maybe 350,000 copies of this book can help


8 posted on 04/23/2007 1:49:38 PM PDT by eartotheground (Rodham delinda est.)
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To: dead

Sage advice.


9 posted on 04/23/2007 1:51:38 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: COUNTrecount

“Dynamic of her marriage?” Please. Here it is (I don’t need 640 pages): “Stay married no matter what because it would make us look bad politically to divorce.” Pitiful.


10 posted on 04/23/2007 1:52:13 PM PDT by Desperately Seeking Freedom
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To: dead

I hope it is not so complimentary that it wins more support for her. But, then, people who buy a book and read it are pretty well learned and informed and won’t be swayed by a dumb biography.


11 posted on 04/23/2007 1:52:40 PM PDT by no dems (To: Our GOP Prez, Congress of big-spenders, crooks, and pedophiles: You failed us miserably.)
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To: COUNTrecount
"I believe his book will stand as the most detailed, comprehensive, and revealing account we have of a woman who helped define one presidency

The late Barbara Olsen wrote a better one.

12 posted on 04/23/2007 1:52:40 PM PDT by Old Sarge (+ /_\)
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To: dead

“explores Clinton’s complex relationship with her disciplinarian father”

Hillary as the victim.... I can’t wait.


13 posted on 04/23/2007 1:53:17 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Carl and Hillary both make my puke.


14 posted on 04/23/2007 1:54:38 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Waiting impatiently for a conservative party to rise from the ashes of the wimpy republican party.)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Carl and Hillary both make me puke.


15 posted on 04/23/2007 1:54:57 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Waiting impatiently for a conservative party to rise from the ashes of the wimpy republican party.)
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To: greyfoxx39

Sorry for the double post, but they are both correct ;)


16 posted on 04/23/2007 1:55:42 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Waiting impatiently for a conservative party to rise from the ashes of the wimpy republican party.)
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To: Sleeping Freeper
“explores Clinton’s complex relationship with her disciplinarian father”

Well, at least he offers an explanation for her lesbianism.

17 posted on 04/23/2007 1:55:50 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: COUNTrecount

why not just write about Jenny Mc Carthy too
all she did was sleep her way to a million bucks letting entry to every orifice be allowed in triplicate. There is no difference tween Bill and Hillary and MCarthy


18 posted on 04/23/2007 1:55:54 PM PDT by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Don’t need another biography of this useless piece of trash. ALAMO GIRL wrote it years ago (see Free Republic listing)


19 posted on 04/23/2007 1:59:09 PM PDT by Uncle George
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To: COUNTrecount
It will be nothing more than a blatant cheerleading, propaganda piece. Bernstein is a flaming liberal.
20 posted on 04/23/2007 1:59:25 PM PDT by MBB1984
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To: COUNTrecount
examines the early development of her deep religious feelings

ROTFL!

21 posted on 04/23/2007 2:00:20 PM PDT by iowamark (What if the Right said Fred?)
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To: COUNTrecount

Brown-nosing books by sycophantic authors. New York publishing houses. Socks that go down my heel. Underwear that creeps. Democrat politicians. New York journalists. Soggy toast. NY NY. Mistaking salt for sugar. Young women in red sports cars, and their cell phones. New York City. Young women in line at Blockbuster, and their cell phones. Bill Clinton. New York politicians. Fake NY conservatives: New York Republicans.
http://edge.org/3rd_culture/tuesday06/brockman.mehta.html
Sonny Mehta. The New York Times. Untrustworthy farts. Harry Reid. Dying, rabid, leprous skunks. Nancy Pelosi.

These are a few of my unfavorite, ungood things. Let me take that back: doubleplus ungood.


22 posted on 04/23/2007 2:09:26 PM PDT by tumblindice (Her Thighness Shrillary Rodjob Klintoon. Bow before her evil, mere mortals.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Deep religious feelings?

If Hillary had one shred of religious feeling in her, she wouldn’t be so nuts for abortion. She loves loves killing babies for their mothers’ convenience.

Hillary Clinton is a hollow, hypocritical woman with nothing, NOT ONE THING, to offer America.


23 posted on 04/23/2007 2:11:02 PM PDT by andonte
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To: COUNTrecount

Maybe Carl will tell us where Craig Livingstone is, what he has been doing and who hired him at the White House.


24 posted on 04/23/2007 2:12:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: COUNTrecount

I recommend a new title, ‘Hillary’ - “I will make you puke”.

Won’t somebody just beam her up to wherever the h*ll she came from??????


25 posted on 04/23/2007 2:14:13 PM PDT by tina07 (In Memory of my Father - WWII Army Air Force Veteran)
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To: andonte

Maybe if she really had deep religious feelings she would have done her book with a Christian publisher like Tony Dungy did. His book will probably never see the light of day in the MSM.


26 posted on 04/23/2007 2:15:52 PM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: theDentist

From ‘deep throat’ to deep doodo.


27 posted on 04/23/2007 2:16:11 PM PDT by Maumee (w)
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To: greyfoxx39

Hah, just seeing your post now..goes well with mine #25!


28 posted on 04/23/2007 2:16:12 PM PDT by tina07 (In Memory of my Father - WWII Army Air Force Veteran)
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To: COUNTrecount
Must be a bear of a job.
29 posted on 04/23/2007 2:16:50 PM PDT by Ingtar (...right wing conservatives are growing tired of crawling on bloody stumps looking for scraps - JRob)
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To: COUNTrecount

Good grief!! Will it be written in a southern drawl?

I’m betting it will be a best seller with 349,000 copies bought and stored in a union basement somewhere in Detroit, next to the 10,000 boxes of stolen Republican absentee ballots.


30 posted on 04/23/2007 2:17:12 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Give Hillary a 50¢ coupon for Betty Crocker's devils food mix & tell her to go home and bake a cake)
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To: Mia T

Will you be illustrating this book?


31 posted on 04/23/2007 2:18:44 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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To: tina07

You’re right!


32 posted on 04/23/2007 2:20:18 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Waiting impatiently for a conservative party to rise from the ashes of the wimpy republican party.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Carl Bernstein wrote 640 pages!!! That amazes me.


33 posted on 04/23/2007 2:33:38 PM PDT by joylyn
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To: COUNTrecount

A Woman Who Should Be Charged


34 posted on 04/23/2007 2:34:25 PM PDT by dukakis kerry the dream team
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To: dukakis kerry the dream team

We have a winner!!


35 posted on 04/23/2007 3:02:29 PM PDT by tina07 (In Memory of my Father - WWII Army Air Force Veteran)
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To: COUNTrecount

Carl, you’d better watch out...they have your FBI file.


36 posted on 04/23/2007 3:16:10 PM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "P" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: Maumee

We know the identity of this “deep throat”... her name was Monica.


37 posted on 04/23/2007 3:18:57 PM PDT by Volunteer (Just so you know, I am ashamed the Dixie Chicks make records in Nashville.)
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To: tumblindice

Hey, you’re the guy who wrote lyrics for that Austrian singing family, aren,t you?

< }B^)


38 posted on 04/23/2007 3:24:58 PM PDT by Erasmus (This tagline on paid leave, pending investigation of its firearm purchase activities.)
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To: COUNTrecount

gee, I bet Carl gets to the bottom of the Vince Foster death /sarc


39 posted on 04/23/2007 3:33:09 PM PDT by isom35
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To: COUNTrecount

These books will stay piled up in stores, unsold for months and months, just like Hillary’s autobiography, “Living History”, did.


40 posted on 04/23/2007 5:36:17 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'Chaim!)
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To: COUNTrecount

looks at her courtship with Bill Clinton

LOL “HER” courtship with Bubba. Notice it doesn’t say, “Bill Clinton’s courtship of Hillary”

Guess that pretty well clarifies who was chasing whom. What a cow.


41 posted on 04/23/2007 5:44:49 PM PDT by hardworking (Hill-de-pants: Never held a job. Never bought a home. Never met a payroll. Qualified to be POTUS)
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To: COUNTrecount

it’s one of a long parade of media shams

designed to get hillary elected.


42 posted on 04/23/2007 5:48:06 PM PDT by ken21 (it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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To: 2nd Bn, 11th Mar

...they have your FBI file.

PHONE CALLER: Hello Carl. We need y’all to write a book about Hillary.

CARL: Well, I don’t know if I have the time...

PHONE CALLER: Carl, we have this little file about you, you see, and....

CARL: When do I need to have the first draft ready?


43 posted on 04/23/2007 5:49:11 PM PDT by hardworking (Hill-de-pants: Never held a job. Never bought a home. Never met a payroll. Qualified to be POTUS)
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To: COUNTrecount

“...who with Bob Woodward helped expose the Watergate scandal.”

And the party rolls on. Will someone born before 1968 please tell me whether it is Watergate or Vietnam (or are they indivisible) that gives the Leftist their Raison D’Etre?


44 posted on 04/23/2007 5:50:54 PM PDT by Harrius Magnus (Pucker up Mo, and your dhimmi Leftist freaks, here comes your Jizya!)
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To: no dems
If they were well learned and informed they wouldn’t by the book in the first place. Lefty drivel.
45 posted on 04/23/2007 5:51:40 PM PDT by mimaw
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To: no dems
If they were well learned and informed they wouldn’t by the book in the first place. Lefty drivel.
46 posted on 04/23/2007 5:51:40 PM PDT by mimaw
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To: tina07

Hmm, that would be ‘beam her DOWN to where she came from.’


47 posted on 04/23/2007 5:52:53 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: Marysecretary

Alien? Demonic form? You win..I stand corrected!!


48 posted on 04/23/2007 10:42:33 PM PDT by tina07 (In Memory of my Father - WWII Army Air Force Veteran)
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When Bernstein sneezes, clinton gets an enema.


49 posted on 04/24/2007 4:03:48 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: COUNTrecount

He better be careful about flying on planes, or walking down stairs.


50 posted on 04/29/2007 5:41:06 AM PDT by radar101 (Dream Team--Hunter&Thompson)
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