ChicagoSun-Times: Boiling Clinton's 957-page tome down (to 2 pages)

"You've got your Friends of Bill. Those would include his mother and daughter and wife (let us hope) and Al Gore and Vince Foster and Bill Daley, among many others.
Then you've got your Enemies of Bill, such as Ken Starr and Newt Gingrich and the editorial writers of the Wall Street Journal, among many others.
And it's hard to know, even from the perspective of three years after the Bill Clinton presidency, which army -- the FOBs or the EOBs -- is bigger.
American politics, especially in Washington, grew uncommonly ugly and polarized during the eight years William Jefferson Clinton was in the White House, a divide that has continued in the presidency of George W. Bush.
In his 957-page new book, My Life, which the Sun-Times obtained before it went on sale today, Clinton offers at least a cameo appearance to seemingly every friend or enemy he ever made, including a few schoolyard bullies. He reflects deeply about a few, such as White House counsel Vince Foster, an old and dear friend who committed suicide. But he blows right past -- just a pat on the back or a kick in the pants -- many others, such as Saddam Hussein and Rush Limbaugh.
My Life, which Clinton wrote in long-hand, has the exhaustive blow-by-blow chronological structure of an extremely detailed diary -- no surprise, perhaps, given the famously talkative ways of its author. It is also, at turns, eloquent, touching, evasive, calculating and tedious -- again, like the author."