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Last year, when Bob Woodward published The Agenda, about the first year of the Clinton White House, he acknowledged his debt to fellow Washington Post reporter David Maraniss, who, Woodward said, knows Bill Clinton better than any writer working today...
...David Maraniss...
...Reading Maraniss' new Clinton biography, First in His Class, it is easy to understand Woodward's praise. Maraniss is not as flashy as his Post counterpart (we never get Wood-wardesque glimpses at what people were "really thinking"), but his reporting is first-class...
...Maraniss' documentation and research are solid throughout, but his restraint is his biggest strength. Even when the author appears sorely tempted to dismiss Clinton as a liar, a cheat or a lech, Maraniss refuses. He understands that Clinton's character is bigger, and better than that...
...Whether he was doing something admirable or questionable, I would say the same thing to myself: Well, that's Clinton," Maraniss writes in his preface. "In that sense, I came to like him even when I disliked him and dislike him even when I liked him...He is a big character, whether he is acting big-hearted or small...