{"id":555,"date":"2012-02-02T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2019-12-03T05:06:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:06:28","slug":"the-clinton-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/the-clinton-tapes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clinton Tapes Wrestling History With The President by Taylor Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><em>Book Review by George Kennedy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/The-ClintonTapes-Wrestling-History-With-The-President-byTaylor-Branch.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-556\" width=\"166\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/The-ClintonTapes-Wrestling-History-With-The-President-byTaylor-Branch.png 484w, https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/The-ClintonTapes-Wrestling-History-With-The-President-byTaylor-Branch-203x300.png 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This is the untold, raw story of the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton: certainly one of the most controversial, Post-War American chief executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author invites the reader to draw their own conclusions on the monologues of a president obsessed with defining the principal events that shaped his presidency, his place in history, and a fear that his story would be given short shrift by his detractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will this alter your view of the Clinton Presidency, the man?&nbsp; The Clinton Tapes should at least intrigue you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor Branch is a bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review by George Kennedy This is the untold, raw story of the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton: certainly one of the most controversial, Post-War American chief executives. The author&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bookshelf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}