Arkansas Mischief (eBook, ePUB) - McDougal, Jim; Wilkie, Curtis
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Until his recent death in federal prison, Jim McDougal was the irrepressible ghost of the Clintons' Arkansas past. As Bill Clinton's political and business mentor, McDougal - with his knowledge of embarrassing real estate and banking deals, bribes, and obstructions of justice - has long haunted the White House. Jim McDougal's vivid self-portrait, completed only days before his death and coauthored by veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie, takes on the rich particularity of character and plot to reveal the hidden intersections of politics and special interests in Arkansas and the betrayals that…mehr

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Until his recent death in federal prison, Jim McDougal was the irrepressible ghost of the Clintons' Arkansas past. As Bill Clinton's political and business mentor, McDougal - with his knowledge of embarrassing real estate and banking deals, bribes, and obstructions of justice - has long haunted the White House. Jim McDougal's vivid self-portrait, completed only days before his death and coauthored by veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie, takes on the rich particularity of character and plot to reveal the hidden intersections of politics and special interests in Arkansas and the betrayals that followed. It is the story of how ambitious men and women climbed out of rural obscurity and "how friendships break down and lives are ruined."

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As Jim Mcdougall puts it, "In the end I was just a guy caught up in the Clinton tornado." Earlier he had managed J. William Fulbright's senate campaigns (and helped make him millions in real estate transactions). Before he was old enough to vote, he masterminded JFK's presidential campaign victory in a state with decidedly anti-Catholic sentiment. Following Kennedy's election, McDougal worked in Washington for Arkansas's other powerful senator, John McClellan. A lifelong populist (and part-time rogue entrepreneur), Jim McDougal was convicted of eighteen counts of banking fraud. He died in prison on March 8, 1998, at the age of fifty-seven. Curtis Wilkie has been a staff writer for The Boston Globe since 1975. Now based in New Orleans, Wilkie covers the South and national politics for the Globe. He has written for George, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, Playboy, and other magazines.