Jeffrey Toobin, who covered the Clinton sex scandal for The New Yorker, has written the definitive book, superbly researched and crafted like a novel, about the unlikely events that culminated in the trial to impeach President Clinton.
Filled with previously unpublished documents and classified information, A Vast Conspiracy is an entirely fresh look at the scandal that nearly brought down a president. For starters, Toobin unravels the three strands of a national scandal - those leading from Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, and Kenneth Starr - that created a legal, personal, and political disaster for Bill Clinton. Then, Toobin lays bare the complex and tangled motivations that fueled Tripp and Goldberg, Isikoff and Hyde, and the other motley characters. Toobin drives this provocative tale with the narrative style of a sensational (if improbable) legal thriller.
Misguided, outlandish behavior was played out a the very highest levels, but Toobin analyzes the facts and the key figures with the dignity and insight that this story never received.

Contents

Cast of Characters

Chronology

Prologue: "This Is Danny"

1. What the Bubbas Wrought

2. "Isn't That What Happened?"

3. Party Girl

4. "I Love This Man"

5. A Really Big Crush

6. "Joan Dean"

7. Their Tabloid Hearts

8. "Good Strong Christian Men"

9. "Draw the Penis for Me"

10. Consensual Sex

11. Revenge of the "Peace Corps"

12. The Definition of Sex -- and L-E-W-I-N-S-K-Y

13. The Richard Jewell File

14. "I Guess That Will Teach Them"

15. "Words of Assent"

16. "Eighteenth-Hand" Rumors

17. "I Don't Care If I'm Impeached..."

18. Winning by Losing

19. Mr. Genitalia and the Perjury Ladies

20. These Culture Wars

Epilogue: Private and Public

Acknowledgments

Source Notes and Bibliography

Index

Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the legal analyst at ABC News. He served as an assistant United States attorney in Brooklyn and as an associate counsel in the office of independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and the author of the bestselling The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson. Toobin lives in New York City with his wife and two children.