If the Watergate scandal was a previous generations National Nightmare thenmaybe the Clinton scandal was our National Wet Dream and who better to narrateit than... » 

If the Watergate scandal was a previous generations National Nightmare thenmaybe the Clinton scandal was our National Wet Dream and who better to narrateit than the screenwriter Joe Eszterhas? In American Rhapsody Eszterhas whosecredits include Basic Instinct and Showgirls and Charlie Simpsons Apocalypsefor which he was nominated for a National Book Award takes us through theevents that threatened to topple a president and left most of the nationscitizens with at the very least a bad taste in their mouths.Taking full advantage of his considerable journalistic and storytellingtalents Eszterhas gives us every fact rumor or innuendo surrounding thepresidents foibles in the context of latecentury American politics andentertainment. Here Washington and Hollywood do more than just flirt with eachother they share the same bed. From scandalmongers Matt Drudge who began as aHollywood gossip and Ken Starr to wouldbe presidential paramours SharonStone and Barbra Streisand to his final unimpeachable witness Willard none other than President Clintons talking penis Eszterhas gives us thegoods on the story that nobody could stop talking about and thanks to AmericanRhapsody will be impossible to think about the same way again. «