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That is, Bill Clinton's My Life, which David Frum reviews in the Sept issue of Commentary. Frum offers the standard (and entirely correct) conservative complaints against Clinton, but commends his understated performance as ex-President. Frum ends on this remarkably hopeful note (especially coming from someone like Frum): "In My Life, Clinton talks about the process of maturation. Like many members of his generation, he has been late to reach full adulthood Enot even being elected President quite got him there. Now, at sixty, he may at last have arrived. And who knows? There may still be important work yet for this gifted man to do, especially if ways can be found to deploy his persuasiveness and charm in the service of his country on the world stage. If that were actually to come about, the day might yet dawn when Americans of all political points of view would be ready to give this contradictory teller of this contradictory tale the affection and respect he has craved above everything else in life."
posted by Peter J. Leithart on Monday, August 30, 2004 at 03:49 PM
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