Lowry's 'Legacy' Hits Times Best-Seller List
Watch out, Madeleine Albright – Rich Lowry is gaining on you.
While the former secretary of state's apologia for the Clinton administration has been on the New York Times best-seller list for a few weeks now, Lowry's "Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years" brings a different perspective on the same topic to the Times list this week.
And if Albright's outlook on her years as a Clinton apparachik is, as the Times notes, "occasionally blinkered," National Review's Lowry pulls no such punches.
"Bill and Hillary Clinton don't want you to read this book," warns publisher Regnery about "Legacy." No wonder.
Lowry not only skewers the 42nd president for leaving America vulnerable to the 9/11 attacks, he also assembles one of the most persuasive cases in print anywhere proving how little credit Clinton actually deserves for the so-called Clinton economic boom.
Not surprisingly, the establishment media haven't been exactly overjoyed with the conservative writer's success.
"I almost invariably find my book in what I've begun to call 'the Ingraham/Limbaugh section' of bookstores - back where they keep the conservative books after you've passed every anti-Bush book on the planet," Lowry tells NewsMax.
Lowry's "Legacy" also drives liberal talk hosts beyond the point of distraction.
"I hung up on one liberal radio show host the other day because he kept saying we're going to talk about the issues and not Bill Clinton. I was thinking, 'Dude, Clinton IS the issue - especially when it comes to my book.'"
The National Review editor says his Times list debut is especially rewarding, since liberal reporters have gone out of the way to pretend that "Legacy" doesn't exist.
"Its amazing how any anti-Bush book is considered newsworthy by the networks and NPR," he noted. "It's one of the starkest examples of liberal bias I can remember seeing." |
