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NAME: Jeffrey ("Boob") Toobin OCCUPATION: scandal chronicler BEST PUNCH: In A Vast Conspiracy, his new book about the Lewinsky affair, Toobin writes that Goldberg once bragged about sleeping with President Lyndon Johnson...
NAME: Lucianne ("Babe") Goldberg OCCUPATION: scandal catalyst BEST PUNCH: Calling Toobin's allegations untrue, the woman who encouraged Linda Tripp to tape presidential consort Monica Lewinsky is threatening a libel suit...
...whose name is well known in international capitals and intelligence circles." Last week, as I, Che hit bookstores, the tease was up. John Blackthorn, it turns out, is Gary Hart, former Senator and two-time presidential candidate whose public career came to a spectacular halt in a 1987 sex scandal...
There's a reason the Lewinsky scandal was so riveting: it was a true story that was better scripted than fiction. It began as John Grisham, with big-haired, twangy-voiced Paula Jones alleging sexual improprieties in a Little Rock hotel room. It ended as Shakespeare, with a powerful leader nearly felled by a tragic flaw. And it was propelled by characters a Hollywood screenwriter would kill to have dreamed up: the giggling intern, the treacherous best friend...
...Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President (Random House; 422 pages; $25.95), New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin retells the whole tale with gusto and adds some fresh details. One example: a moist-eyed Clinton hails the Travelgate-embattled Hillary in his 1996 State of the Union Address as a "wonderful wife [and] magnificent mother"--and then autographs a copy of the speech as a gift for Monica Lewinsky. Toobin doesn't shy away from the story's tawdriest moments--like the Jones camp's suggestion that Clinton may have undergone surgery...