Sally Bedell Smith's For Love Of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years. First, note the Bill and Hillary construction instead of the other way 'round. The bok features plenty of probing, if familiar, insights into their marriage and shared visions. There's a good section on the triangular power struggles between Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and POTUS. Someone in the Clinton universe obtained a pre-publication copy of the book and doesn't seem to be all that concerned; a spokesman declined to comment. The book goes on sale next Tuesday; Bedell Smith's PR tour starts late this week.
And then Tom DeFrank, the Washington bureau chief of the New York Daily News, is days away from publishing his long-awaited tome, "Write it When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-The-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford." Attention network bookers: DeFrank has these conversations on audiotape.
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The Los Angeles Times digs through Clinton's FEC reports and finds that Clinton is raising unprecedented amounts of money from poor Chinatown residents. "Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton's campaign treasury. In April, a single fundraiser in an area long known for its gritty urban poverty yielded a whopping $380,000. When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) ran for president in 2004, he received $24,000 from Chinatown."
“Clinton has enlisted the aid of Chinese neighborhood associations, especially those representing recent immigrants from Fujian province. The organizations, at least one of which is a descendant of Chinatown criminal enterprises that engaged in gambling and human trafficking, exert enormous influence over immigrants. The associations help them with everything from protection against crime to obtaining green cards. Many of Clinton's Chinatown donors said they had contributed because leaders in neighborhood associations told them to. In some cases, donors said they felt pressure to give
Posted by Grace | October 19, 2007 10:10 AM