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I picked this one up from the Biography section of Half Price Books, but I don't think I would have put it in that category. If I were in a snarky mood and wanted to give this book a one sentence description, I would say it's a 270 page critique of Bill Clinton's autobiography My Life. 

Dick Morris served as Bill Clinton's political consultant for about 20 years. In Because He Could, he offers his take on Bill Clinton's life during the years of his association, occasionally tying things back to Clinton's childhood and young adulthood. He paints Clinton as a talented man with great empathy, someone who could relate well to people and respond to their needs, but one who also failed to grasp the longer view and see the consequences of his actions. Mr. Morris also presents Clinton as a president between wars--the Cold War and the War on Terror. He credits Clinton with solving a number of domestic problems, but wonders if he dropped the ball on preparing for or avoiding the international issues that came to the fore in the early 21st Century. 

All in all it was a somewhat interesting book, but as it had more politics than history in it, it didn't really fit my agenda.

For me, it was only waiting room material.
LibraryThing link

Labels: PresidentialBioReadingList, WaitingRoomMaterial

// posted by John @ 6:27 PM