First published 2018
Two decades after the Clinton impeachment crisis, former independent counsel Ken Starr reveals his side of the story. For twenty years, Starr watched as critics painted him as a politically motivated prosecutor who overreached in his investigations. Now he presents his account of the scandals that consumed the 1990s. Starr walks readers through each major controversy, from Whitewater real estate dealings to the suicide of White House counsel Vince Foster, from the White House travel office firings to the Monica Lewinsky affair. He argues that these separate incidents shared one connecting factor: the Clintons' willingness to bend legal and ethical rules. Starr contends that his team followed evidence wherever it led, driven not by partisan politics but by the principle that presidents must answer to the law like any other citizen. The book challenges the narrative that Bill and Hillary Clinton were victims of a coordinated political attack, instead portraying them as leaders who abused their position and showed disrespect for legal institutions.
Genres: history, 20th-century, crime, biography-memoir, 21st-century, american-history
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: White House
Period: 1990s
312 pages · Hardcover · Sentinel