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The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
by Barbara Olson
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc. (2001-10-25)
ISBN: 0895261677
EAN: 9780895261670
Dewy Decimal #: 973.929092
Hardcover: 258 pages
SKU: BA2520
Condition: New
Comments: Exactly as shown - Brand New, never opened. Dust Jacket intact with some edgewear. Text clean with NO marks.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Olson turns her razor sharp vision on the Clintons' shocking excesses in their final days of office: the outrageous pardons to political cronies and friends, the looting of the White House, the executive orders that were sheer abuses of presidential power, the presidential library that is becoming a massive boondoogle of vanity more appropriate for a Third World dictator, and much more.
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Customer Reviews
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America Swooned While Mental Illness Occupied the White House
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-04-21
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book was written by Barbara Olson prior to her tragic death in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the pentagon, and published posthumously. It is a well researched, frank, hard hitting book, and Ms. Olson tells it like it is.
Chapter by Chapter Ms. Olson takes up abuses of power in the Clinton administration from spending billions of dollars of taxpayer money on personal travel; abuse of the executive order; lying under oath; presidential pardons and sentence commutations of fugitive money lenders, former members of Congress, a former CIA director, friends of Jesse Jackson, Clinton campaign contributors, a cross section of the Clinton cabinet, bank robbers, small- and big-time crooks, friends, relatives, ex-girlfriends, con men, terrorists, perjurers, and tax evaders, all for personal gain; to stealing literally truckloads of furniture and furnishings from the White House that belonged to the citizens of the United States. These things and many others the Clintons did with almost total impunity and with little scrutiny from the press until it was long overdue.
It took Barbara Olson almost to the end of the book to come out and say it. Bill Clinton was for eight years a truly irrational person, someone who lived on the edge of serious mental illness. He was a psychologically sick man who, first as governor and then as president, risked his marriage, his office, his bond with the voters, and the creditability of his party to gratify his personal needs. Hillary was more than an accomplice; she called the shots, only to have no knowledge of what went on, or any recall of it.
This book published before its time. It should be on the best seller list now to refresh people's memories.
Now Hillary wants eight more years for her and Bill in the White House. I guess they didn't get finished looting the place or fleecing the taxpayers the last time. We certainly need Barbara Olson today more than ever. May she rest in peace?
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The Final Days
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-04-21
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
You won't be voting for Hillary if you read this book. Shame on both the Clinton's. How do they sleep at night knowing what they have done. The book is really worth the time to read it. I strongly recommend it just to get your blood to boil. Sorry the author isn't around anymore to uncover additional information. I would like to see Barbara Olson and Micheal Moore collaborate on a movie.......that, I would pay good money to see!
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A book about two topics: pardon and donation.
Rating  (2)
Date: 2006-05-25
5 out of 18 customers found this reveiw helpful
I listened to the audio version of this book. While most of the things said in this book may be true, it appears a bit biased. In addition to facts, the author uses some adjectives which show her personal dislike of the famous couple.
In the end, I had an impression that this book grew out of author's frustration upon Mark Rich pardon. Many chapters are dedicated to that case.
A disproportionately large portion of the book is devoted to two topics: pardon and donations. At one point the audio book spends a large amount of time only listing names of who donated what item. It goes on and on and on with names that make no sense and contribute nothing much to the story. That could have been moved to the appendix to keep the flow going.
I was hoping to find details about mischievious behavior by Clinton staff during the last days. There was no mention of that.
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FAILING TO CROSSOVER
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-04-14
7 out of 16 customers found this reveiw helpful
"The much talked about Marc Rich pardon has become an appropriate symbol of the entire eight years, but Mrs. Olson does a commendable service by clearly detailing the effrontery of his (Rich's) misdeeds, and an even more skillful demonstration of the President's specious and insulting attempt to justify this shocking act. To add fuel to her raging fire, she quotes former President Jimmy Carter who openly stated "I don't think there is any doubt that some of the factors in his pardon were attributable to his large gifts. In my opinion that was disgraceful."
Naturally, given her neo-con bent, Ms. Olsen failed to mention the extremely salient point that the attorney representing Marc Rich's pardon application was none other than Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's aide.
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Excellent and bloody right!
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-03-18
8 out of 18 customers found this reveiw helpful
All of you Clinton lovers should actually learn to not turn the blind eye on many of these things Clinton did during his presidency. The last few minutes before he was impeached.
I can admit George Bush is a bad president himself but I can also admit what Bill clinton stood for. Corruption!
See the pardons such as the nationalistic terrorist group from Puerto Rico plus the tax cheat and a whole list of other losers that Clinton pardoned.
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