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Born into the Deep South of the 1940s, Lott and Clinton are the sons of demanding moms and alcoholic dads or stepdads. Both were "miracle" children in their mothers' eyes: Clinton was born just after his biological father died in a car wreck; Lott arrived six years after his parents began trying to conceive a child. Lott was an only child and, like Clinton, was treated as an adult from an early age. Both were called upon to mediate frequent arguments between their parents, though Lott's father, unlike Clinton's, was not physically abusive. Still, both men learned...
...Both Lott and Clinton were unathletic in communities that prized prowess on the field. They excelled at their studies, music and campus politics--yet both failed in their bids for student president in college. Both avoided the draft. Both married politically shrewd women from families of higher social standing. Neither man much cares for alcohol, though both enjoy a celebratory cigar. Both are Baptists who believe in "redemption and resurrection"--as Lott often reminds a wayward lawmaker whose vote he is seeking...
...Neither Lott nor Clinton has worked longer than a couple of years in the private sector. Neither has accumulated any significant wealth or cares much about it. Both, however, care deeply about the political power that campaign cash can buy and are willing to trade favors...
...nearly identical words: "I know his type," or "I knew guys like him back home." And that's partly because they walked different paths even before they left their small hometowns. Virginia Clinton doted on her son so much that she turned over the master bedroom to him. Iona Lott, however, recalls that "people used to say an only child would be spoiled and selfish. And I was determined he wouldn't be that way." She made Trent share everything, including the pony she got him before he was 10, when the family still lacked an indoor toilet...
...Lott and Clinton are also five years apart, a gap that feels like a whole generation. Clinton came of age in the late 1960s, surrounded by the Eastern elite: at Georgetown University, Oxford and Yale Law School. He protested for racial justice and against the war in Vietnam. He grew a beard, didn't inhale and was as undisciplined then as now, studying in last-minute crams and failing to earn a degree at Oxford...