Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine (Abridged)

Bill Clinton is the most investigated president since Richard Nixon-facing inquiries into Whitewater, campaign fundraising abuses, and sexual misconduct-and yet he began 1998 with approval ratings as high as those of Ronald Reagan. But the new year has brought a barrage of new allegations, and the president and his advisers face once again the challenge of spinning the news to their advantage, a challenge they have mastered many times before.

In Spin Cycle, award-winning Washington Post repo...