Has anyone read The Clinton Tapes

[JitterbugPerfume]

by Taylor Branch?

[11cents]

1. I have it.

I haven't read it cover to cover, but I've enjoyed just opening it up anywhere and reading
a few pages randomly. Recommended. One entertaining note: Clinton prides himself on
his ability to size up the personalities, the core motivations, of other politicians,
and that means, of course, developing some empathy for them. So even when he's
critical or furious with someone, he also evinces some sympathy -- with one exception,
George W. Bush, whom he describes (upon first meeting him as Texas governor), as basically
just an obnoxious asshole, cordial in public and a jerk in private.

[mantis49]

2. Reading it now.

I'm about half way through. The one thing that strikes me again and again during my reading is how the more things change, the more they stay the same.