Volume 43, Number 14 · September 19, 1996
The Deferential Spirit
By Joan Didion
OTHER BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
The Choice
by Bob Woodward
Simon and Schuster, 462 pp., $26.00
The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House
by Bob Woodward
Pocket Books, 431 pp., $6.50 (paper)
The Commanders
by Bob Woodward
Pocket Books, 395 pp., $5.99 (paper)
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987
by Bob Woodward
Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi
by Bob Woodward
Pocket Books, 532 pp., $5.99 (paper)
The Brethren
by Bob Woodward, by Scott Armstrong
Pocket Books, 558 pp., $6.99 (paper)
On the morning of Sunday, June 23, the day the prepublication embargo on Bob Woodward's The Choice was lifted, The Washington Post, the newspaper for which Mr. Woodward has so famously been, since 1971, first a reporter and now an editor, published on the front page of its A section two stories detailing what its editors believed most newsworthy in The Choice. In columns one through four, directly under the banner and carrying the legend The Choice—Inside the Clinton and Dole Campaigns, there appeared passages from the book itself, edited into a narrative describing the meetings Hillary Clinton had from 1994 to 1996 with Jean Houston, who was characterized in the Post as 'a believer in spirits, mythic and other connections to history and other worlds' and as 'the most dramatic' of Mrs. Clinton's '10 to 11 confidants,' a group that includes her mother.
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