The Seduction of Hillary Rodham
| Author | David Brock |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Hillary Rodham Clinton |
| Genre | Character assassination turning hagiography |
| Publisher | Free Press |
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Publication date
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October 8, 1996 |
| Pages | ~464 |
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| Preceded by | The Real Anita Hill |
| Followed by | Blinded by the Right |
The Seduction of Hillary Rodham is a 1996 book about the early years of Hillary Rodham Clinton written by once-conservative attack writer, later-liberal media watch dog and Clinton ally David Brock. The book was written during the advent of Brock's turn and thus contains a somewhat confused ideological viewpoint, but due to that it is arguably the closest-to-neutral thing he has written.
After the commercial and received-ideological success of The Real Anita Hill, Brock's first book,The Free Press paid Brock a large advance to write a book about Hillary Rodham Clinton. That amount has been stated as $550,000 by FrontPage Magazine and as $1 million by Brock in his 2002 memoir Blinded by the Right.
In that volume, Brock would claim that he was pushed into the book assignment by what his publisher and agent wanted, but in any case the clear expectation was that it would be a takedown in the style of his writings on Anita Hill and Bill Clinton. To fulfill this goal Brock hired what he has termed a "small brigade of researchers" to assist him.
The project, however, took a different turn, and the resulting book, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, proved to be largely sympathetic to Hillary Clinton, causing surprise within the publishing industry. Having received the large advance and a tight one-year deadline from Simon & Schuster's then-conservative-focused Free Press subsidiary, Brock was under tremendous pressure to produce another bestseller. However, the book contained no major scoops. In Blinded by the Right, Brock said that he had reached a turning point: he had thoroughly examined charges against the Clintons, could not find any evidence of wrongdoing and did not want to make any more misleading claims.
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