Posted on 03/07/04
Clinton's 'parallel lives' still shadowy
My Life By Bill Clinton Knopf, 957 pages, $50Early in this predictably prolix autobiography, Bill Clinton writes with rare affect about what he calls his "parallel lives, an external life that takes its natural course and an internal life where the secrets are hidden." The former president goes on to note his continuing "struggle" with that divided existence, and "the difficulty I've had in letting anyone into the deepest recesses of my internal life. It was dark down there." After 957 pages, 1.5 million copies, and one of the most extravagant promotions in publishing history, it still is.
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