We actually gave it a bad review, before we gave it a good one...
Posted on 06/23/2004 5:56:06 PM PDT by Pikamax
NYT does second "My Life" review 6/23/2004 8:06:25 PM
E-mail from Kathy Park of New York Times Public Relations
Folks,
I wanted to let you know that Larry McMurtry reviewed Bill Clinton's book "My Life." The review is available on NYTimes.com now, two weeks before it is to appear in The New York Times Book Review on July 4. (Will be linked from the homepage of NYTimes.com tomorrow)
In the review, Larry McMurtry describes "My Life" as..."the richest American presidential autobiography - no other book tells us as vividly or fully what it is like to be president of the United States for eight years."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/books/review/0623books-mcmurtry-clinton.html
A second review and more favorable than the first.
Those FBI files really have come in handy for the Clinton's, haven't they?
LOL, this is a joke right????
Billy is getting an NYT mulligan.
William Jefferson Clinton's "My Life" is, by a generous measure, the richest American presidential autobiography - no other book tells us as vividly or fully what it is like to be president of the United States for eight years. Clinton had the good sense to couple great smarts with a solid education; he arrived in Washington in 1964 and has been the nation's - or perhaps the world's - No. 1 politics junkie ever since. And he can write - as Reagan, Ford, Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson, to go no farther back, could not.
In recent days the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant have been raised as a stick to beat Clinton with, and why? Snobbery is why. Some people don't want slick Bill Clinton to have written a book that might be as good as dear, dying General Grant's. In their anxiety lest this somehow happen they have not accurately considered either book.
How predictable. I knew as soon as I saw the original review that the Times would get some Clinton fan to write a favorable review. And Larry McMurtry hasn't had an original idea in 20 years (he's too busy recycling all the good ideas he ever had) so it's apropos that he adores Clinton.
So they gave Clinton a MULLIGAN huh????
Whhaaatttt......is this guy talking about! Good grief.
Well, he's use to getting them on the golf course, why not in real life.
Well, that's what Dan Rather said, too! UGH. All these celebrities stick together.
NYT Editor: "Thank Satan! Our DNCFAX machine is working again!"
Ding ding ding. We have a winner!
I stand corrected.
If its the same guy I'm going to have to shoot my horse Malaria.
Yes. He is a fiction writer.
The very same. His other significant credits include "The Last Picture Show" and "Hud". An altogether excellent writer who was able to accurately capture the nature of small town Texas and the characters residing therein.
McMurtry still lives in Archer City (the fictional Anarene of "Picture Show"), operating a rather large and quite good book store located right on the square. He is often on the floor and available to chat.
It so happens I'll be passing through Archer City next week. Perhaps, I'll stop off and give Larry a piece of my mind.
Unless his politics have outrun his talent, he's too good a writer to mistake Slick Willie's scribblings with, "by a generous measure, the richest American presidential autobiography".
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