Stephanie S. reviewed on 9/24/2015 + 168 more book reviews

I could not put this book down. I read it in 2015, a gazillion years after the scandal, and I have to say I have nothing but sympathy and admiration now for Ms. Lewinsky. Yes, she was naive and made a very poor decision to flirt with the President. Young and dumb, no question. But Bill Clinton was older, supposedly wiser, POTUS and a very married man when she came into his view--and he was the one who could have, and should have, stopped it before it all began, thereby averting tragedy. Alas.

Further, the avalance of public humiliation, scrutiny and outright terror Monica and her family experienced by the betrayal of her supposed friend Linda Tripp, and then at the demand of Kenneth Starr on behalf of the government, was revolting and eye-opening. She was effectively stripped of her rights as an American citizen--all very publicly for the world to see and ridicule. Tripp and Starr (and even Clinton himself) must fret daily, hourly, over the karma that will one day be their rewards.

Yes, this is "her side" of the events. But every annecdote was well documented, and the story unfolded logically and believably. I was fascinated.

****1/2 Four and a half stars!

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