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“Hang 'em high, Hillary”
:
Roger Simon, “Hillary Rope-a-Dopes Press, but Who's the Dope?,”
Politico
, July 7, 2015,
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/roger-simon-hillary-clinton-press-119777.html
.

To Goodwin's ear
:
Michael Goodwin, “Two-Faced Hill Razer,”
New York Post
, May 20, 2015.

CHAPTER 29: ON THE “PRECARIOUS LEFT EDGE”

“Hillary has kept Bill on the sidelines”
:
Interview with a Clinton confidant who requested anonymity.

Bill told his advisers
:
Interview with anonymous sources who spoke directly with Bill Clinton.

“If his advice is asked for”
:
Ben Kamisar, “Bill Won't Campaign for Hillary in 2015, Aides Say,”
Ballot Box
(blog),
Hill
, May 11, 2015,
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/241605-bill-wont-campaign-for-hillary-in-2015-aides-say
.

“Hillary Rodham Clinton is running the most liberal”
:
Anne Gearan, “Clinton Is Banking on the Obama Coalition to Win,”
Washington Post
, May 17, 2015,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/running-to-the-left-hillary-clinton-is-banking-on-the-obama-coalition-to-win/2015/05/17/33b7844a-fb28-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html
.

CHAPTER 30: “A HYDRA-HEADED BEAST”

they were worried sick
:
This chapter is based on a series of interviews with an anonymous source who spoke on several occasions with
Hillary and Bill Clinton about how the 2016 election campaign impacted their family.

CHAPTER 31: “IT'S GONE WAY TOO FAR”

Barack Obama could hardly contain his excitement
:
This chapter is based on a series of interviews with sources who spoke directly with Valerie Jarrett about her discussions with the president and Mrs. Obama regarding Hillary Clinton.

EPILOGUE: THAT OLD CAR SMELL

“Has American culture become gross”
:
Stan Latreille, “An Old Fogey Sounds Off on Coarsening of Language, Dress, Music, Manners,” Livingston Post, December 9, 2013,
http://thelivingstonpost.com/an-old-fogey-sounds-off-on-coarsening-of-language-dress-music-and-manners/
.

“I am glad that I'm not raising kids today”
:
Nick Gillespie, “Society Is Coarser—but Better,”
Time
, October 9, 2013,
http://ideas.time.com/2013/10/09/yes-society-is-coarser-and-better/
. Emphasis in original.

“The cruel, perverse and obscene”
:
Jacques Barzun,
From Dawn to Decadence
(New York: Harper Perennial, 2001).

“I think the American people”
:
Zeke J. Miller, “Obama: Voters Want ‘New Car Smell' in 2016,”
Time
, November 23, 2014,
http://time.com/3601329/obama-new-car-election-2016/
.

“Nobody wants to go to a fund-raiser”
:
Maureen Dowd, “Hooray for Hillarywood?,”
New York Times
, May 30, 2015,
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-hooray-for-hillarywood-hillary-clinton.html
.

Her “favorability” with that cohort
:
Josh Kraushaar, “Hillary Clinton's Quiet Self-Sabotage,”
National Journal
, May 26, 2015,
http://www.nationaljournal.com/against-the-grain/hillary-clinton-s-quiet-self-sabotage-20150526
.

“Warren has suggested”
:
David Frum, “Run, Warren, Run,”
Atlantic
, January 13, 2015.

“[Hillary] is so terrified of losing Iowa”
:
Mark Halperin, “Hillary Clinton Is Terrified of the Left,” Bloomberg Television, April 16, 2015,
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2015-04-16/mark-halperin-hillary-clinton-is-terrified-of-the-left
.

“On the party's favorite issue of income inequality”
:
Ed Rogers, “The Insiders: How Will Clinton Reconcile Her Past with Her Platform?,”
Washington Post
, June 8, 2015,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/06/08/the-insiders-how-will-clinton-reconcile-her-past-with-her-platform/
.

Hillary's “magnitude of experience”
:
Brent Budowsky, “The Magic of Bill Clinton,”
Hill
, May 20, 2015,
http://thehill.com/opinion/brent-budowsky/242732-brent-budowsky-the-magic-of-bill-clinton
.

“Becoming the first female president”
:
Richard Cohen, “Just Being Hillary Clinton Isn't Enough,”
Washington Post
, August 12, 2013,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/richard-cohen-just-being-hillary-clinton-isnt-enough/2013/08/12/3734074c-037c-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html
.

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Bernstein, Carl.
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Bozell, L. Brent, III, with Tim Graham.
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Brimelow, Peter.
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Califano, Joseph A., Jr.
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Chafe, William H.
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Coulter, Ann.
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:
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:
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New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.

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Game Change
:
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The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America's Future.
New York: Crown Forum, 2012.

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:
American Foreign Policy in Retreat.
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:
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INDEX
INDEX

A

Abacha, Sani,
126

Abedin, Huma,
24
,
66
,
72
,
81
,
97
,
115
,
122
,
140–41
,
182
,
212

     
background of,
77–78

     
double dipping,
79–80

Affleck, Ben,
160

AFL-CIO,
157

African Americans,
24–25
,
52
,
93
,
156

Alinsky, Saul,
102

Allen, Woody,
199

Almanac of American Presidents
,
The
(Barone),
134

al Qaeda,
78
,
122–23
,
125

Amanpour, Christiane,
213

America,
16–18
,
21
,
77
,
122
,
128
,
160
,
208

     
coarsening of,
228–30

     
culture of,
51
,
227–28

     
foreign policy of,
74
,
86
,
134
,
151
,
213

     
money to Haiti,
124

     
politics in,
52
,
55–56
,
117
,
119
,
129
,
134
,
147
,
149
,
162
,
174
,
212–15
,
227–28
,
235–37

American Bridge PAC,
120

Andrew, Prince,
198–200

Ansar al-Sharia,
122

Asia,
82
,
86
,
142
,
215

Associated Press,
135
,
207

Atlantic
, the,
115
,
169
,
234

Avenue Capital,
98

Axelrod, David,
74
,
113

B

Baltimore, MD,
24–25

Band, Doug,
73
,
79
,
93–95
,
197

Barbara Lee Family Foundation,
9

Bardack, Lisa,
30

Barone, Michael,
134

Barzun, Jacques,
230

Begala, John,
24
,
32
,
142

Beijing,
77
,
82
,
86
,
198

Benenson, Joel,
170

Benghazi,
120
,
178

     
e-mails about,
87
,
123

     
as a Hillary scandal,
23
,
134
,
236

     
known to be dangerous,
87
,
121–22

     
“What difference does it make?,”
43
,
151

Bergdahl, Bowe,
151

Bernstein, Carl,
42

Beschloss, Afsaneh,
99

Bevan, Tom,
131

Biden, Beau,
185

Biden, Joseph “Joe,”
109
,
185

     
death of son,
185

     
as possible challenger to Hillary,
109
,
185
,
225–26

Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation,
17
,
92
.
See also
Clinton Foundation

Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport,
12

billionaires,
17
,
12
,
125
,
197
,
199
,
209

Bird, Jeremy,
170

Blair, Diane,
47

Blankfein, Lloyd C.,
98

Blood Feud
(Klein),
120–22
,
150
,
172–73

“Bloody Sunday,”
191

Blumenthal, Sidney,
xi–xiii
,
87
,
110
–
11
,
119–20
,
122

Boko Haram,
86
,
125–26

Boston Globe
,
178–79

Broaddrick, Juanita,
200

Browning, Dolly Kyle,
200

Buchanan, Pat,
151

Bush, George W.,
61
,
133
,
143
,
191
,
214
,
231
,
234

Bush, Jeb,
136
,
150
,
158
,
221

C

Canada,
128

Cancro, Robert,
41

Caputo, Lisa,
46–47

Carter, Jimmy,
174
,
215

Carville, James,
24
,
32
,
142

Cayne, James “Jimmy,”
199

CBS News,
107

Cedar Falls, IA,
209

Chafee, Lincoln,
109
,
184
,
232–33

Chagoury, Gilbert,
126

Chappaqua, NY,
12
,
23–24
,
31–32
,
93
,
98
,
112
,
115
,
148
,
155
,
175
,
196

Cher,
160

Chinagate,
109

Chipotle,
212

Chozick, Amy,
207

Cillizza, Chris,
205–6

Citizens United
,
215

Clark, Wendy,
104

Clinton, Chelsea,
79
,
98
,
155

     
Clinton Foundation and,
17
,
20
,
91–95
,
193
,
219–20

     
confrontation with Bill over foundation,
93–95

     
“get caught trying” slip,
96

     
as likely first lady to Hillary,
20

     
NBC job,
92
,
94

     
relationship with parents,
32
,
95
,
219–20

     
speaking fees,
17

     
temper,
8
,
94
,
96

     
wedding,
97
,
115
,
198

Clinton, Hillary Rodham

     
absent from Selma event,
191–93

     
agreement with Obama White House,
xii–xiii
,
73
,
111

     
anger issues,
42–43
,
72
,
195–96

     
appearance of,
147–49

     
bipartisanship in Senate,
48–49

     
David Geffen and,
55–56

     
“dead broke” comment,
16
,
123
,
151

     
distancing from Obama,
215

     
e-mail scandal,
87
,
107–117
,
119–21
,
137–38
,
175
,
188
,
220–21

     
FBI investigation of,
188–89
,
220

     
feud with Obamas,
71–76
,
109–11
,
168–70
,
172–75
,
177–82
,
188
,
224–25

     
fights with Bill,
xii
,
10
,
195–96

     
as first lady,
21

     
health,
28–32

     
as liar,
42
,
56
,
61

     
liberal credentials,
101–2

     
likeability lessons,
3–6
,
102–3

     
makeovers,
45–49
,
104–5

     
as misanthrope,
40–41

     
Oprah and,
51–54

     
paid speeches,
7–8
,
17
,
151–52

     
parents of,
38–40
,
42

     
“personality deficit,”
58

     
rebranding of,
104–5

     
reliance on Bill,
37–38
,
91

     
scandals and,
23
,
129
,
133–35
,
152
,
236

     
as secretary of state,
65–69
,
71–83
,
85–87
,
119–31
,
137
,
139–44
,
151
,
175

     
sees self as victim,
xv–xvi

     
shamelessness,
21

     
as similar to Claire Underwood,
10

     
2008 campaign.
See
2008 presidential primary

     
2016 campaign,
15
,
23
,
25
,
80
,
91
,
133–37
,
155–57
,
184
,
205–10
,
218–20
,
231–36

     
unlikeability of,
41
,
49
,
57
,
61
,
149–51
,
232

     
visit to Kennedy Compound,
160–62

Clinton, William Jefferson “Bill”

     
absent from Selma event,
191–93

     
advice for Hillary,
3–4
,
31
,
72–73
,
81–83
,
143–44
,
147–48
,
155–58
,
214

     
agreement with Obama White House,
xii–xiii
,
73
,
111

     
David Geffen and,
55–56

     
dealings during Hillary's time at State,
87
,
119–31
,
137
,
140–41

     
excellent at politics,
152–53

     
feud with Obamas,
xii
,
109–11
,
168–70
,
172–75
,
177–82
,
188
,
224–25

     
as first gentleman,
19–21

     
frequent conversations with Hillary,
10
,
91

     
as governor,
7
,
38

     
health,
25–28

     
impeachment,
66
,
133–34
,
236

     
Jeffrey Epstein and,
195–202

     
lifestyle of,
10–21
,
82
,
94–95

     
1992 presidential campaign,
24
,
45

     
Oprah and,
52–53

     
out of loop on Hillary's campaign,
211–13

     
paid speeches,
7–8
,
15–16

     
pardons granted,
55–56

     
political infidelity of,
13–14
,
27

     
popularity of,
16

     
relationship with Marc Mezvinsky,
97–98

     
shamelessness,
21

     
as similar to Frank Underwood,
10

     
visit to Kennedy Compound,
160–62

Clinton administration,
53
,
55
,
75
,
102
,
113
,
156
,
233–34

Clinton Cash
(Schweizer),
126–27

Clinton Foundation,
17
,
123
,
198
,
209–10
,
213

     
as access to Clintons,
18

     
agreement with Obama White House regarding,
xiii
,
73
,
87

     
control of,
32–34
,
91–95
,
219

     
Donna Shalala and,
32–34
,
193
,
219

     
Doug Band and,
93–95

     
foreign donations to,
xii–xiii
,
73
,
110–11
,
126–31
,
188–89
,
232

     
Hillary's work for while at State,
23
,
125–26
,
130
,
135
,
137
,
139–44
,
175
,
189
,
232

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