Jun 5, 2007 11:03 pm US/Eastern
Author: Hillary Interrogated Bill's Paramours
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The life of Sen. Hillary Clinton hit bookstores June 5 with the release of "A Woman In Charge" by Carl Bernstein.
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Just what Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign didn't need -- two unauthorized biographies hit the bookstores this week.
CBS' New York affiliate WCBS-TV talked with Carl Bernstein, whose "A Woman In Charge" came out Tuesday. It has all kinds of things you never knew about the woman who wants to be the nation's first "madam president."
"She slimed fish in Alaska and tore out their guts with a little sharp spoon," Bernstein said Tuesday.
Ask whatever else we don't know about Hillary Clinton -- or her marriage to Bill -- and Bernstein tells you.
When asked if he thinks Hillary married for love, Bernstein said: "Of course she married him for love but part of that love is that they had a shared political vision."
The author of "A Woman In Charge" spent seven years interviewing the Clintons' friends and employees for his unauthorized biography.
Bernstein said that one of the big revelations in the book is that at one point Bill actually asked Hillary for a divorce.
"She didn't want to let him out of the marriage," Bernstein said.
She convinced him to work on the marriage so he could run for president, but Bernstein said Hillary knew before she said, "I do" that he would never be faithful.
"She dedicated much of her life to trying to hide and camouflage and cover up those sexual compulsions," Bernstein said.
Hillary even hired her own law firm to represent Bill's paramours. Her actions included:
"Interrogating them herself, and getting them to sign statements that they had no relationships with the former president," Bernstein said.
The reaction from Hillary's camp was muted.
"Americans are interested in Sen. Clinton's plan for improving health care, lowering gas prices, and bringing our troops home from Iraq -- not an author's agenda to take old stories and rehash for cash," said Phillippe Reines, Hillary's press secretary.
Bernstein said his book actually does a service to the 2008 presidential campaign because voters can discover the real Hillary. But then again, Bernstein is trying to sell books.
The second book, "Her Way: The Hopes And Ambitions Of Hillary Rodham Clinton" is set to hit stores on Friday.
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