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[sleepystudent]

you have a wimpy editor that isn't doing his or her job. I can totally believe that this book is rambling and unfocused-Clinton has been like this before ( and I adore him). And if I was writing the memoir of my life, especially if I had as extraordinary a life as him, I would go on and on myself. But to make a cohesive narrative, which is what a good memoir should be, you have to pare and prune and the book should have a thrust. I think that's what Kakutani is saying-what's political about that? She's won a Pulitzer, she knows her stuff. And she's not saying don't buy the book;she's saying she didn't like it, it's not good, and here is why. She isn't working for Richard Mellon Scaife and some people need to get outside, take a walk and get some fresh air and calm down. Not everything is a personal attack or a hatchet job, believe it or not.