Spin Cycle

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House press secretary Mike McCurry, a master at defusing volatile situations and walking the fine line with the press. Though less paranoid and cynical of the media than Clinton, he often finds himself on both ends of personal attacks and vendettas that veer far outside the arena of objective reporting. The anecdotes and carefully buried information that Kurtz has uncovered give this book a brisk pace, along with ample invaluable information that cuts to the core of this age of media overkill.

Kurtz focuses mainly on White House response to scandal news in 1996

and 1997, and he does not purport to cover most other aspects of the relationship between the president and the press. And within the narrow scope of his research, he had only fragmentary access to important information. For legal and political reasons, white House aides were probably not inclined to volunteer the whole truth. What’s more, the story is still unfolding. Though he adds nothing to what is known about ...

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workings of Clinton’s well-oiled

propaganda machine--arguably the most successful team of White House spin

doctors in history. He takes the reader into closed-door meetings where Bill

Clinton, Al Gore, Mike McCurry, Lanny Davis, and other top officials plot

strategy to beat back the scandals and neutralize a hostile press corps through

stonewalling, stage managing, and outright intimidation. He depicts a White

House obsessed with spin and pulls back the curtain on events and tactics that

the administration would prefer to keep hidden. The secret report the Hillary

Clinton ordered on a reporter investigating the Whitewater affair as part of a

plan to discredit her. A tense, ...

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