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Article: Falls of justice: what happens when a biographer attacks his subject--and gets his facts wrong?(Book Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- April 1, 2003
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WILD BILL: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas by Bruce Allen Murphy Random House, $35.00
TODAY, IT SEEMS, NO ONE MAY occupy high office without submitting his or her personal history to ongoing scrutiny of near-proctological thoroughness. (Just ask John Kerry.) And though such investigations are often justified in the name of the public's right to know, they can generate misinformation and myth as often as insight. In the 1990s, for instance, everyone "knew" that Bill and Hillary Clinton must have committed some sort of crime related to the Whitewater real estate deal--until, $70-million worth of independent counsel investigations later, it turned out they ...