A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President

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The International Bestseller
The inspiration for Impeachment: American Crime Story

The definitive account of the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandals, A Vast Conspiracy casts an insightful eye over the extraordinary ordeal that nearly brought down a president.
First published a year after the infamous impeachment trial, Jeffrey Toobins propulsive narrative captures the full arc of the Clinton sex scandals from their beginnings in a Little Rock hotel to their culmination on the floor of the United States Senate with only the second vote on presidential removal in American history.

Rich in character and fuelled with the high octane of a sensational legal thriller, A Vast Conspiracy has indelibly shaped our understanding of this disastrous moment in American political history.

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[An] admirably clear, vigorously written, plain-spoken and commonsensical book The New York Times Book Review

A superb work of factual and legal analysis Few novels are as gripping The New York Review of Books

A good read a brave book Economist

A story as taut and surprising as any thriller . Unimpeachable page-turner People

Author Bio

Jeffrey Toobin is the bestselling author of The Oath, The Nine, Too Close to Call, A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life, which was made into the critically acclaimed FX series American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson. He is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the senior legal analyst at CNN.