Whenever something surfaced which I thought was merely some canard set forth by the Clintons' enemies, it turned out to be true. The book sets the pace for Hillary bios to come. Neither gush nor bash, it approaches the First Lady as a canny media entity who gained insight even through the death of Princess Diana. Miss Milton is already in the fast lane. The book itself is a complex and scrupulously documented odyssey, with 13 pages of footnotes.
Campaign finance gets a thorough going over.
All is not negative, though. Miss Milton offers some blasts out of the past. A presidential counselor, one who apparently had a romantic attachment to the First Lady, had worked in the White House for six months without an FBI background check or a permanent pass. Today's interview with Milton will be bumped. But whenever it airs it will be interesting to see how hostile Katie Couric or Matt Lauer is toward Milton.