Volume 46, Number 2 · February 4, 1999
The Republicans' War
By Lars-Erik Nelson
The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution?
by Linda Killian
Westview, 463 pp., $17.00 (paper)
Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress
by Nicol C. Rae
M.E. Sharpe, 255 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Lessons Learned the Hard Way: A Personal Report
by Newt Gingrich
HarperCollins, 229 pp., $25.00
Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr, and the Emerging Constitutional Crisis
by Alan M. Dershowitz
Basic Books, 275 pp., $23.00
In the early afternoon of December 19, 1998, the lame-duck, dwindling majority of Republican members of the House of Representatives defied overwhelming public opinion and impeached President Clinton on two counts of high crimes and misdemeanors deriving from his denials of his sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky. The rapid-fire votes climaxed six years of efforts by the press, gossips, politicians, and prosecutors to pin some crime or other on Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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