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<p>How is Kenneth Starr’s extraordinary term as independent counsel to be understood? Was he a partisan warrior out to get the Clintons, or a savior of the Republic? An unstoppable menace, an unethical lawyer, or a sex-obsessed Puritan striving to enforce a right-wing social morality? This book is the first serious, impartial effort to evaluate and critique Starr’s tenure as independent counsel. Relying on lengthy, revealing interviews with Starr and many other players in Clinton-era Washington, <em>Washington Post </em>journalist<em> </em>Benjamin Wittes arrives at a new understanding of Starr and the part he played in one of American history’s most enthralling public sagas.</p> <p>Wittes offers a subtle and deeply considered portrait of a decent man who fundamentally misconstrued his function under the independent counsel law. Starr took his task to be ferreting out and reporting the truth about official misconduct, a well-intentioned but nevertheless misguided distortion of the law, Wittes argues. At key moments throughout Starr’s probe—from the decision to reinvestigate the death of Vincent Foster, Jr., to the repeated prosecutions of Susan McDougal and Webster Hubbell to the f
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- Author
- Benjamin Wittes
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300127485
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Law
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