Boy Clinton

The Political Biography

By: R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., Editor-in-Chief of The American Spectator, traces the formative influences on the young, fatherless Clinton by the hustlers and rogues who populated his boyhood hometown of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Tyrrell shows how the influence-peddlers who dominated Arkansas politics served as Clinton's real political models, and explains how these factors combined with Clinton's '60s-era radicalism to create a new, more dangerous type of career politician.

With dozens of fresh revelations about both Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tyrrell sheds important new light on their activities in Arkansas and Washington. Tyrrell also draws together the overwhelming evidence - enough to convict any lesser citizen - that the Clintons are guilty of tax fraud, obstruction of justice, and lying to government agencies.

©1996 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (P)1996 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Outrageous...extremely funny...a coherent narrative about a bizarre political career and the forces which helped create it." (Washington Times)
"The record Mr. Tyrrell offers in Boy Clinton - assembled with insight, wit, and literary flair - gives a picture of two people intent of penetrating the checks and balances of the Constitution and impose their cronies on Washington and the vision of their 1960s gurus on the nation...." (Wall Street Journal)

Well...not exactly

Meant to be a final say on a failed Clinton single term as president, this book reads as an overly optimistic portrayal of the American political landscape of the mid 90s. Tyrrell apparently expected the American public to send world class liar and adulterer Bill Clinton packing back to Dogpatch in the '96 election. Sadly, the RepubliCONS ran noted WW2 fraud and snooze fest Bob Dole against him. To the extent elections are not rigged, it was never close enough to need any rigging. Perhaps this can be blamed on the same Ross Perot who swung the '92 election to Clinton over the Prince of Darkness (George HW Bush)? At any rate...

This is an entertaining book, if for no other reason than it is always entertaining to hear the truth about how horrible Bill and Hillary Clinton were/are. Clinton is portrayed as ineffective, unfocused, and a failure up until the point the book was written. This is a whitewash of course, since Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar and obviously groomed for the position. His crimes are mentioned but the most egregious ones, such as the murder of Branch Davidians at Waco, are barely touched upon. Whitewater and the murder of Vince Foster don't get much attention either. The drug running through Mena show up early and then disappear. It's a shame because much of this book is excellent. I only wish it was a little harder on Clinton, and not try to portray him as so naive and ineffective. It was always Clinton's rope-a-dope strategy.

Tyrrell is a very smart man, but this hinders the narrative at times because he does have a tendency to show off how smart he is, and talk down to the reader. Too many large words and tangents into psychology and side narratives, but all in all a worthwhile read.

I miss the days of the "Vast right wing conspiracy" when we could at least pretend there was any difference in the 2 parties, instead of their unanimous support of war, central banking and, of course, the genocide committed by Israel.