Brown, Floyd G. "Slick Willie": Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton. Annapolis MD: Annapolis Publishing, 1992. 192 pages.

Deborah Stone, president of Annapolis Publishing, was editor of the Dartmouth Review in 1986-87. This book, her company's first title, sold 35,000 copies in four months. In 1988 Floyd Brown produced the famous Willie Horton ad against Michael Dukakis, and in 1992 he set up the Gennifer Flowers Hotline which played tapes of conversation between her and Bill Clinton.

Even if one disregards the portions that deal with Clinton's womanizing (they are solid, but some will consider them irrelevant), this book still leaves a substantial amount of documented material regarding Clinton's background, and evidence reflecting on his character. There is little question that the major media was unusually kind to Clinton in 1992 -- particularly on the Gennifer Flowers issue, as compared to the number they did on Gary Hart in 1988. To a lesser extent it was also true on the draft issue: his draft dodging was more calculated than portrayed in the media, and so were his explanations of it during the campaign. This book also includes some background on Hillary Rodham's career. Unfortunately, it misses Clinton's connections to East Coast elites (who apparently use Southern governors as cover), and concentrates more on his record in Arkansas. Nevertheless it is more valuable than those two or three fawning biographies that were available on bookstore shelves as of early 1993.
ISBN 0-9634397-0-7

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