Bill Clinton pledged to run "the most ethical administration in the history of the republic." In High Crimes and Misdemeanors, conservative lawyer and pundit Ann Coulter finds this promise laughably off the mark. Although she devotes a fair amount of space to the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Coulter covers the gamut of Clinton controversies, from the Whitewater deal to the death of Vincent Foster to Filegate (plus others--ever heard of "Wampumgate"?). Her tone is aggressively anti-Clinton, but she also has the virtue of engaging and straightforward prose that explains why each individual scandal matters. (The chapter on Whitewater begins: "This is the boring part. Whitewater gets interesting only when you understand why it is boring. It is boring by design, like a New York Times editorial. Don't skip to the next chapter! That's just what the Clintons want you to do.") The best section of the book is a serious examination of the impeachment process--how the Founding Fathers envisioned it, how it's been used throughout history, and why, in Coulter's opinion, it should be invoked against Clinton. --John J. Miller


The Economist
...reads like the closing argument of a long trial by a prosecutor who plainly hates the guilty bastard at the defence table...


The Wall Street Journal, Robert H. Bork
Its sprightly style is a welcome relief from the lugubrious, Teutonic language in which Clinton defenders describe the unthinkable disaster of impeachment.


New American, October 26, 1998
"...a jolting examination of the moral and ethical leper that lurks behind the amiable facade of Bill Clinton"


Washington Post, October 16, 1998
"A 314-page polemic that combines legal scholarship with a kitchen-sink review of every charge [against Clinton]"


Book Description
The book that started it all. Written with Coulter's trademark irreverent wit, this bestseller is now available in paperback.


About the Author
Ann Coulter is an attorney and legal affairs correspondent. Both of her books, High Crimes and Misdemeanors and Slander were New York Times bestsellers. She lives in New York City and Washington, D.C.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The book that started it all! Ann Coulter's High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton. Written with Coulter's trademark irreverent wit, the bestselling High Crimes and Misdemeanors is available for the first time in paperback. Readers of Ann Coulter's bestselling Slander will love High Crimes and Misdemeanors. In this New York Times bestseller, Coulter mercilessly pillories Clinton and examines the abuses and excesses of Bill Clinton point by point. She also shreds every conceivable defense the Clintons to bits as she probes the major Clinton scandals, including Monica, Filegate, the China connection, the travel office snafu, and the fundraising fiascos. And Coulter does it all in her own inimitable style.