Blood Sport, James B. Stewart
Blood Sport, James B. Stewart
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Blood Sport
The President and His Adversaries

Author: James B. Stewart

Narrator: Boyd Gaines

Abridged: 5 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/1996


Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart takes readers behind the scenes in the Clinton White House as it reels in the wake of the Whitewater scandal, Vincent Foster’s suicide, and Paula Jones’ allegations of sexual misconduct.

In July 1993, White House official Vincent Foster wrote an anguished lament: “in Washington...ruining people is considered a sport.”

Nine days later, Foster was dead. Shock at the apparent suicide of one of President Clinton’s top aides turned to mystery, then suspicion, as the White House became engulfed in an ever-widening net of unanswered questions. Among the confidential matters Foster was working on when he died was the Clinton’s ill-fated investment in Whitewater, an Arkansas land development. Soon conspiracy theories were circulating, alleging that Foster was murdered because he knew too much. And the Whitewater affair, a minor footnote to the 1992 presidential campaign, was suddenly resurrected in the national media. To a degree that left them sunned and at times depressed, the president and the first lady have been buffeted by a succession of scandals, from the first lady's profitable commodities trading to the sexual harassment allegations of Paula Jones. Like his predecessors, the Clinton presidency son found itself engulfed in allegations of scandal, conspiracy, and cover-up.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews, many with people speaking publicly for the first time, James B. Stewart also sheds startling new light on these and other mysteries of the Clinton White House. In a fast-paced narrative that ranges from a backwater town in the Ozarks to the Oval Office, from newsrooms in New York and Los Angeles to offices of conservative think tanks and special prosecutors, the result is an unprecedented portrait of political combat as it is waged in America today.

About James B. Stewart

James B. Stewart is a columnist at The New York Times and the author of numerous books including the blockbuster Den of Thieves, Blood Sport, DisneyWar, and his most recent New York Times bestseller, Unscripted. He won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the stock market crash and insider trading. He is a regular contributor to SmartMoney and The New Yorker. He is a professor of business journalism at Columbia University and lives in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancee on June 01, 2008

12 years after its publication, Blood Sport reveals the Clinton mentality as users of people who surround them. Stewart traces the history of Whitewater, Jim and Susan McDougal with their accompanying cast of characters, Arkansas politicians who influenced and modeled behavior for Clinton, and the W......more

Goodreads review by Jerome on February 14, 2024

I love books that are more factual than judgmental…and I think James Stewart nails the right balance in this book about various episodes that involved the Clintons......more

Goodreads review by Pam on July 06, 2021

The title is misleading: it should have been called Whitewater. While there were a few surprising tidbits of the Clinton's behind-the-scenes, they were few and far between. You have to wade through banking transactions, land transactions, and more. This was too factual, too clinical, too dry. I was......more

Goodreads review by M on March 17, 2020

An abridged narrative of Clinton financial shenanigans leading up to the suicide of Vince Foster.......more

Goodreads review by Philip on April 22, 2020

Stewart does a commendable work on a time in American politics that was infested with lies, corruption, and withholding key evidence. Always somewhat leary on political writings in regards to openness and fair play, his work and background brought forth at least an honest saga based on fact. Politic......more