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Tuesday, October 01, 2002
BOOK REVIEW: THE NATURAL * * * 1/2 (3 and a half stars out of 4).
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The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton by Joe Klein, the Newsweek columnist who anonymously wrote Primary Colors takes an ambivalent view of the Clinton Presidency, as, I suppose, most all of us do. It takes the hardly controversial view that the Clinton presidency was characterized by policy triumphs and personal failures. But he also makes the insight that these are not entirely unrelated. That is, Clinton always made his politics personal, and traded on his ability to empathize with voters. Additionally, his personal relationship with his very influential wife often trumped his political judgments. In the end, Klein does convince me that Clinton was misunderstood, and that his policy successes were greater than he was given credit for, which only makes his personal mistakes, which cost him so much politically, all the more unforgivable.
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