Product Description

Olson turns her razor sharp vision on the Clintons' shocking excesses in their final days of office: the outrageous pardons to political cronies and friends, the looting of the White House, the executive orders that were sheer abuses of presidential power, the presidential library that is becoming a massive boondoogle of vanity more appropriate for a Third World dictator, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #207159 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-25
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 258 pages

From Library Journal
What would conservative writer Olson have opined about the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States? We will never know, because she was on board the airliner that dove into the Pentagon that day. But one can guess: she might have decried President Clinton's failure to confront Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network or cited it as just another of the policy failures of the most corrupt President in American history. For in this, her last book, she drags fact after fact into the light of day and bitterly, even sneeringly, rails against the Clintons, their characters and lifestyles, their liberal friends and radical causes, their moral failures and shady activities. She is clearly preaching to the choir, but what an indictment she brings-especially regarding the Clinton pardons of Marc Rich and a pro-Communist terrorist and many, many others. Olson had particular distaste for former First Lady Hillary Clinton, finding elements of her Senate campaign unutterably corrupt; she didn't much like her personally either. This over-the-top approach will, for many listeners, dilute her message but, still, the book is hard to ignore. Reader Kimberly Schraf proceeds with a measured cadence somewhat distant from the words, and that is probably the best approach to listening to an angry tract such as this. Libraries with a modern political history collection will find this work flying off the shelf, at least until the Clintons pass from the American scene.
Don Wismer, Cary Memorial Lib., Wayne, ME
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Former federal prosecutor Barbara Olson served as the Chief Investigative Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, where she spearheaded the investigation of the Clinton administration's travel office firings and eventually uncovered the explosive "filegate" scandal. She also served as the Principal Assistant General Counsel and Solicitor to the House.

Barbara Olson was killed on September 11, 2001, when the airplane she had just boarded for Los Angeles was hijacked by terrorists and crashed into the Pentagon. Though invariably charming and gracious, Barbara was both passionate and courageous. She held strong opinions, and nobody who was in the same room with her ever had any doubt about what she believed. She did not apologize for what she thought or said, and she always spoke her mind articulately and clearly. Barbara Olson was a champion of freedom. And she was a champion of the rule of law--of the need to maintain a free and civil society by means of a well-defined body of law that protects the individual from government tyranny. All of us at Regnery Publishing are deeply saddened by the loss of our author and friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, and the thousands of other relatives and friends who have lost their loved ones in the terrorist attacks on our country.

Customer Reviews

America Swooned While Mental Illness Occupied the White House
This book was written by Barbara Olson prior to her tragic death in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the pentagon, and published posthumously. It is a well researched, frank, hard hitting book, and Ms. Olson tells it like it is.

Chapter by Chapter Ms. Olson takes up abuses of power in the Clinton administration from spending billions of dollars of taxpayer money on personal travel; abuse of the executive order; lying under oath; presidential pardons and sentence commutations of fugitive money lenders, former members of Congress, a former CIA director, friends of Jesse Jackson, Clinton campaign contributors, a cross section of the Clinton cabinet, bank robbers, small- and big-time crooks, friends, relatives, ex-girlfriends, con men, terrorists, perjurers, and tax evaders, all for personal gain; to stealing literally truckloads of furniture and furnishings from the White House that belonged to the citizens of the United States. These things and many others the Clintons did with almost total impunity and with little scrutiny from the press until it was long overdue.

It took Barbara Olson almost to the end of the book to come out and say it. Bill Clinton was for eight years a truly irrational person, someone who lived on the edge of serious mental illness. He was a psychologically sick man who, first as governor and then as president, risked his marriage, his office, his bond with the voters, and the creditability of his party to gratify his personal needs. Hillary was more than an accomplice; she called the shots, only to have no knowledge of what went on, or any recall of it.

This book published before its time. It should be on the best seller list now to refresh people's memories.

Now Hillary wants eight more years for her and Bill in the White House. I guess they didn't get finished looting the place or fleecing the taxpayers the last time. We certainly need Barbara Olson today more than ever. May she rest in peace?

The Final Days
You won't be voting for Hillary if you read this book. Shame on both the Clinton's. How do they sleep at night knowing what they have done. The book is really worth the time to read it. I strongly recommend it just to get your blood to boil. Sorry the author isn't around anymore to uncover additional information. I would like to see Barbara Olson and Micheal Moore collaborate on a movie.......that, I would pay good money to see!

A book about two topics: pardon and donation.
I listened to the audio version of this book. While most of the things said in this book may be true, it appears a bit biased. In addition to facts, the author uses some adjectives which show her personal dislike of the famous couple.

In the end, I had an impression that this book grew out of author's frustration upon Mark Rich pardon. Many chapters are dedicated to that case.

A disproportionately large portion of the book is devoted to two topics: pardon and donations. At one point the audio book spends a large amount of time only listing names of who donated what item. It goes on and on and on with names that make no sense and contribute nothing much to the story. That could have been moved to the appendix to keep the flow going.

I was hoping to find details about mischievious behavior by Clinton staff during the last days. There was no mention of that.