"Do you know who I am?" Bill Clinton asked his adversary Newt Gingrich during the government shutdown of 1995-96. He answered the question himself: "I'm the big rubber clown doll you had as a kid, and every time you hit it, it bounces back." The harder you hit me, he added, "the faster I come back up." In a new book, the Washington Post reporter John F. Harris, who covered the Clinton White House from 1995 through 2001, focuses on the Comeback Kid's "survivalist ethic" - his ability to continually bounce back from adversity, his ability to make it to...