{"product_id":"the-breach","title":"The Breach","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith unprecedented access to all the players - major and minor - \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e reporter Peter Baker reconstructs the compelling drama that gripped the nation for six critical months: the impeachment and trial of William Jefferson Clinton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Breach\u003c\/i\u003e vividly depicts the mind-boggling political and legal events as they unfolded, a day-by-day and sometimes hour-by-hour account beginning August 17, 1998, the night of the president's grand-jury testimony and his disastrous speech to the nation, through the House impeachment hearings and the Senate trial, ending on February 12, 1999, the day of his acquittal. Using 350 original interviews, confidential investigation files, diaries, and tape recordings, Baker goes behind the scenes and packs the book with newsworthy revelations - the infighting among the president's advisers, the pressure among Democrats to call for Clinton's resignation, the secret back-channel negotiations between the White House and Congress, a tour of the War Room set up by Tom DeLay to force Clinton out of office, the agonizing of various members of Congress, the anxiety of lawmakers who feared the exposure of their own sex lives, and Hillary Clinton's learning that her husband would admit his affair with Monica Lewinsky.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Breach\u003c\/i\u003e is contemporary history at its best - shocking, revealing, and consequential. It is a tale of how Washington became lost in \"the breach\" of its own partisan impulses. All of this, and much more, makes The Breach one of the most important and illuminating volumes of history and contemporary politics of our generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42982115213392,"sku":"9781476730073B","price":12.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/the-breach","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}