Who is the real Hillary Rodham Clinton? She's a feminist, yet she rode to power on her husband's coattails. She's strong and assertive, yet she has put up with decades of infidelity. She inspires fierce loyalty, yet she frequently stabs her followers in the back. She's a liberal, yet she's pretending to be a moderate.

This edition includes a fascinating new foreword about Edward Klein's head-on collision with the Clinton machine and its allies. BACKCOVER: “This is not a scandal book intended merely to gratify the reader's salacious interests. Instead, Mr. Klein has written a serious political and psychological biography of the most likely next Democratic nominee for president—and thus, quite plausibly I fear, the next president of the United States.”
—Tony Blankley, The Washington Times

“We've already seen what [the media] are willing to do to protect Hillary Clinton. They trashed a perfectly respectable, though highly critical, biography of Hillary by veteran newsman Ed Klein.”
—Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard

“The press is not curious about what Klein is saying. They are circling the wagons, trying to defend Hillary.”
—Rush Limbaugh

“I've never in the history of this program had more demands to cancel a guest.”
—Sean Hannity

"No other person in modern times has been so thoroughly scrutinized," writes Klein. "And yet, the climactic moment of Jackie’s life—in which she orchestrated her own death as masterfully as she orchestrated the funeral of her assassinated husband—remains shrouded in mystery. This book lifts that veil." Klein has unearthed revelatory material about her illness—why it took so long to diagnose, the treatments she endured, and the ones she refused. He also celebrates Jackie’s life—her accomplishments, and her hopes for John and Caroline. Farewell, Jackie is a regal tribute and an inspiring account of the last days of a woman whose legacy endures in post-Camelot America.

The book is arranged in bite-sized mini-chapters, and there's a naughty treat in almost every bite. Though Ari didn't kiss Jackie at their wedding, an alleged accidental eyewitness calls their lovemaking "energetic and creative"--maybe because, unlike with his previous girlfriends, Ari didn't burn Jackie with cigars or wear her clothes. Jackie may have spent over $2 million (in 1998 dollars) on clothes, but hey, her pal Bunny Mellon spent $6 million.

Klein offers lots of intimate alleged facts, like her three face-lifts in the '80s, but the best thing about the book are the quotes, some of them Jackie's. Her friend Brendan Gill poses the central question of her life: "How does one live publicly in a world where one has to lie?" Some of the truths are probably in this book. --Tim Appelo