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UNLIKEABLE

Copyright © 2015 by Edward Klein

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First e-book edition 2015: ISBN 978-1-62157-437-8

Originally published in hardcover, 2015

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ALSO BY EDWARD KLEIN

NONFICTION

All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy

Just Jackie: Her Private Years

The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years

Farewell, Jackie: A Portrait of Her Final Days

The Truth about Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President

Katie: The Real Story

Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died

The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House

Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas

NOVELS

If Israel Lost the War

(With Robert Littell and Richard Z. Chesnoff)

The Parachutists

The Obama Identity

(With John LeBoutillier)

ANTHOLOGIES

About Men

(With Don Erickson)

In memory of Richard Chesnoff, dear friend, and Robert Christopher, mentor

CONTENTS

    
PROLOGUE
“CALL OFF YOUR DOGS”

PART I: A HELL OF A MESS

    
CHAPTER 1
“MORE GOLDA THAN MAGGIE”

    
CHAPTER 2
#GRANDMOTHERSKNOWBEST

    
CHAPTER 3
THE KING OF LITTLE ROCK

    
CHAPTER 4
INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY

PART II: THE GREAT PRETENDER

    
CHAPTER 5
THE MISANTHROPE

    
CHAPTER 6
“I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A YANKEES FAN”

    
CHAPTER 7
A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE

PART III: A PANTSUIT-WEARING GLOBETROTTER

    
CHAPTER 8
THE PRAETORIAN GUARD

    
CHAPTER 9
SHAFTED

    
CHAPTER 10
DOUBLE DIPPING

    
CHAPTER 11
“I LOVE YOU, BILLY”

    
CHAPTER 12
TOP TEN

PART IV: THE FLOODGATES OPEN

    
CHAPTER 13
“GET CAUGHT TRYING”

    
CHAPTER 14
IMAGINING “HILLARY 5.0”

    
CHAPTER 15
WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA

    
CHAPTER 16
“SKIN IN THE GAME”

    
CHAPTER 17
A “CLASSIC WASHINGTON OMELETTE”

    
CHAPTER 18
THE SMOLDERING GUN?

PART V: PICKING UP THE PIECES

    
CHAPTER 19
THE POLITICAL ANIMAL

    
CHAPTER 20
“WHEN YOU GOT IT, FLAUNT IT”

    
CHAPTER 21
DINNER WITH LIZ

PART VI: THE VENDETTA

    
CHAPTER 22
WHISPERING CAMPAIGN

    
CHAPTER 23
ON THE QT

    
CHAPTER 24
SOMEBODY “O'MALLEABLE”

    
CHAPTER 25
A SUB ROSA INVESTIGATION

    
CHAPTER 26
MISSING IN ACTION

    
CHAPTER 27
A TABLOID STAPLE

PART VII: SHAMELESS

    
CHAPTER 28
THE POTEMKIN CAMPAIGN

    
CHAPTER 29
ON THE “PRECARIOUS LEFT EDGE”

    
CHAPTER 30
“A HYDRA-HEADED BEAST”

    
CHAPTER 31
“IT'S GONE WAY TOO FAR”

    
EPILOGUE
THAT OLD CAR SMELL

    
AUTHOR'S NOTE

    
NOTES

    
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

    
INDEX

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