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Authors: Edward Klein

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A WMUR Granite State Poll
:
Ben Kamisar, “Poll: Clinton Trails Bush, Paul and Rubio in NH,”
Ballot Box
(blog),
Hill
, May 7, 2015,
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/241414-poll-clinton-trails-bush-paul-and-rubio-in-nh
.

Another University of New Hampshire poll
:
Aaron Blake, “Is Hillary Clinton ‘Likable Enough'? And Does It Even Matter?,”
Washington Post
, February 9, 2015,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/02/09/is-hillary-clinton-likable-enough-and-why-does-it-even-matter/
.

That press conference
:
Jason Zengerle, “Is Hillary Clinton Any Good at Running for President?,”
New York
magazine, April 5, 2015,
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/04/hillary-clinton-2016-campaign.html
.

“She's like Pete Rose”
:
Ibid.

“Hillary still obsesses about money”
:
Maureen Dowd, “When Will Hillary Let It Go?,”
New York Times
, June 14, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-when-will-hillary-let-it-go.html
.

“The presidency . . . isn't all that powerful”
:
George Packer, “The Choice,”
New Yorker
, January 28, 2008,
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/01/28/the-choice-6
.

“He'll show up at your birthday party”
:
Interview with a close Clinton ally who requested anonymity.

CHAPTER 20: “WHEN YOU GOT IT, FLAUNT IT”

First, . . . you must protect your left flank
:
Interview with a guest at a Clinton dinner party who requested anonymity.

CHAPTER 21: DINNER WITH LIZ

Bill Clinton had a recurring nightmare
:
Interviews with several of Bill Clinton's friends, all of whom requested anonymity.

“I've heard from state committeemen”
:
Ibid.

The Clintons flew in a private jet
:
Interviews with members of the Kennedy family who requested anonymity.

“Bill was in full campaign mode”
:
Ibid.

A week after
:
Ibid.

“Liz said that she's flattered”
:
Interview with a member of the Kennedy family who requested anonymity.

When the Clintons received word
:
Interviews with a number of Clinton confidants who requested anonymity.

PART VI: THE VENDETTA

CHAPTER 22: WHISPERING CAMPAIGN

“Val told me that the polls were rigged”
:
Interview with a source close to Valerie Jarrett who requested anonymity.

“total fool”
:
Nick Wing, “Bill Clinton: Obama Risks Looking Like a ‘Wuss,' ‘a Total Fool' If He Doesn't Act on Syria,” Huffington Post, June 13, 2013,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/13/bill-clinton-obama-syria_n_3434393.html
.

“Great nations need organizing principles”
:
Jeffrey Goldberg, “Hillary Clinton: ‘Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS,”
Atlantic
, August 10, 2014,
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/hillary-clinton-failure-to-help-syrian-rebels-led-to-the-rise-of-isis/375832/
.

“frat house”
:
Dana Milbank, “Hillary Clinton Rebrands Obama's Frat House as Her Own,”
Washington Post
, February 17, 2015,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-rebrands-obamas-frat-house-as-her-own/2015/02/17/1d0ab0fc-b6e8-11e4-9423-f3d0a1ec335c_story.html
.

“[Hillary's people] are planning to hold off deciding”
:
Internal memo leaked to the author by a campaign aide working for a rival of Hillary's for the nomination.

“The Clintons are consciously going out”
:
Ibid.

“[Hillary] and the Obama White House really, really hated”
:
Glenn Thrush, “Nicole Wallace to Carly Fiorina: Hands Off Hillary,”
Politico
, May 14, 2015,
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/nicole-wallace-to-carly-fiorina-hands-off-hillary-117940.html
.

linked the words “blood feud” directly to the “Democratic Party”
:
Robert Draper, “The Great Democratic Crack-Up of 2016,”
New York Times Magazine
, May 12, 2015,
www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/magazine/the-great-democratic-crack-up-of-2016.html
.

“Ideologically, it pitted so-called ‘Elizabeth Warren Democrats'”
:
Ibid.

“Mrs. Clinton's political operation”
:
Nicholas Confessore and Amy Chozick, “Emerging Clinton Team Shows Signs of Disquiet,”
New York Times
, February 11, 2015,
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/us/politics/emerging-clinton-team-shows-signs-of-disquiet.html
.

“It seems highly unlikely”
:
Author's interview with Henry Sheinkopf, January 3, 2014.

the e-mail scandal was timed by Jarrett to hit the headlines
:
Interview with someone who spoke directly to Valerie Jarrett and who requested anonymity.

six separate probes
:
Interview with State Department source who requested anonymity.

CHAPTER 23: ON THE QT

let Hillary know on the QT
:
Interview with State Department source and a source who spoked directly with Hillary Clinton. Both requested anonymity.

When Kerry was a senator
:
Darren Garnick and Ilya Mirman, “If the Walls Could Talk,” Slate, October 28, 2010,
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2010/10/if_the_walls_could_talk.html
.

“When Kerry made a comment in 2006”
:
Matt Viser, “With Clinton E-mail Mess, Kerry Faces Balancing Act,”
Boston Globe
, April 14, 2015,
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/04/14/john-kerry-faces-balancing-act-manages-hillary-clinton-email-mess-state-department/uTE8A9tK99zk3uw6Q8l50O/story.html
.

“Kerry is focused on creating a legacy for himself”
:
Ibid.

“My contacts and friends in newspapers and TV”
:
Interview with anonymous source.

“She's grinding her teeth at night again”
:
Interview with an anonymous Clinton source.

CHAPTER 24: SOMEBODY “O'MALLEABLE”

Obama's decision
:
Maggie Haberman, “Clinton: ‘No Obama Immigration Action May Have Hurt in Midterms,'”
Politico
, November 15, 2014,
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/clinton-no-obama-immigration-action-may-have-hurt-in-midterms-112924.html
.

The meeting with Hillary
:
Interview with anonymous sources close to both Hillary and Valerie Jarrett.

“You must be busy”
:
Ibid.

“After Hillary was gone”
:
Interview with a source who spoke directly with Valerie Jarrett and who requested anonymity.

Valerie's search for an alternative
:
Ibid.

CHAPTER 25: A SUB ROSA INVESTIGATION

“We ate on the new White House china service”
:
Interview with an anonymous source who dined with Valerie Jarrett and the Obamas in the White House.

“You need to do your duty”
:
Ibid.

CHAPTER 26: MISSING IN ACTION

“According to people familiar with her thinking”
:
Noah Rothman, “
NY Times
: Clinton's Conspicuous Absence at Selma Celebrations Did Not Go Unnoticed,”
Hot Air
(blog), March 90, 2015,
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/09/ny-times-clintons-conspicuous-absence-at-selma-celebrations-did-not-go-unnoticed/
.

“Hillary would have even gone alone”
:
Interview with an anonymous Clinton source.

For the privilege of hosting
:
Geoff Earle, “Students Get Billed,”
New York Post
, June 1, 2015.

“As usual, women were all over Bill”
:
Interview with anonymous source who attended the South Beach fund-raiser with Bill Clinton.

CHAPTER 27: A TABLOID STAPLE

As Hillary later described the scene to friends
:
Interviews with sources close to Hillary, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about her fight with Bill in January 2015.

Ghislaine would later be accused
:
Anna Pukas, “Revealed: The Woman at the Centre of the Prince Andrew Scandal . . . Ghislaine Maxwell,”
London Express
, updated January 26, 2015,
http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/550433/Ghislaine-Maxwell-Prince-Andrew-sex-abuse-scandal
.

“What [originally] attracted Clinton to Epstein”
:
Landon Thomas Jr., “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery,”
New York
magazine, October 28, 2002,
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/
.

“I only ever met Bill twice”
:
Sharon Churcher and Polly Dunbar, “Teenage Girl Recruited by Paedophile Jeffrey Epstein Reveals How She Twice Met Bill Clinton,”
Daily Mail
(UK), March 5, 2011,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363452/Bill-Clinton-15-year-old-masseuse-I-met-twice-claims-Epsteins-girl.html
.

The reckless billionaire
:
Vicky Ward, “I Tried to Warn You about Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003,” Daily Beast, January 6, 2015,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/06/i-tried-to-warn-you-about-sleazy-billionaire-jeffrey-epstein-in-2002.html
.

I interviewed Epstein by telephone
:
Edward Klein, “The Trouble with Andrew,”
Vanity Fair
, August 2011,
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/08/prince-andrew-201108
.

“Bill's Libido Threatens to Derail Hillary—Again”
:
Maureen Callahan, “Bill's Libido Threatens to Derail Hillary—Again,”
New York Post
, February 14, 2015,
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/08/prince-andrew-201108
.

“Bill was sipping iced tea”
:
Interview with a Clinton legal adviser who requested anonymity.

PART VII: SHAMELESS

CHAPTER 28: THE POTEMKIN CAMPAIGN

In recent years
:
Taegan Goddard's Political Dictionary,
http://politicaldictionary.com/
.

“Her aides are planning a different sort of campaign”
:
Peter Nicholas, “Clinton Campaign's Challenge: Make Her ‘Likable,'”
Washington Wire
(blog),
Wall Street Journal
, April 12, 2015,
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/04/12/clinton-campaigns-challenge-make-her-likeable/
.

that came to one question every 3.6 days
:
Chris Cillizza, “Hillary Clinton Hasn't Answered a Question from the Media in 20 Days,”
Washington Post
, May 11, 2015,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/05/11/hillary-clinton-hasnt-answered-a-question-from-the-media-in-20-days/
.

“This is exactly what I want to do”
:
Tamara Keith, “The 13 Questions Hillary Clinton Has Answered from the Press,” National Public Radio, May 13, 2015,
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/13/406250488/the-13-questions-hillary-clinton-has-answered-from-the-press
.

“Who would be able to raise money”
:
Julie Pace, “If Clinton Is Elected, Family Foundation Could Face Changes,” Associated Press, May 11, 2015.

“This is the first installment”
:
Amy Chozick, “Questions for Hillary Clinton: Immigration,”
FirstDraft
(blog),
New York Times
, May 6, 2015,
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/06/questions-for-hillary-clinton-immigration/
.

It posted an online clock
:
Philip Bump, “Here's a Clock That Counts the Minutes Since Hillary Clinton Answered a Press Question,”
Washington Post
, May 12, 2015,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/05/12/heres-a-clock-that-counts-the-minutes-since-hillary-clinton-answered-a-press-question/
.

In her first thirty days
:
Annie Linskey, “N.H. Voters Take Lack of Access to Clinton Personally,”
Boston Globe
, May 20, 2015,
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/05/19/hillary-clinton-campaign-stays-arms-length-from-everyday-voters/42GU5L0KX3UYxKYqNj6iJM/story.html
.

She appeared at sixteen fund-raisers
:
Jennifer Epstein, “Manhattan Moguls, including Beyonce, Turn Out for Hillary Clinton,” Bloomberg Politics, May 13, 2015,
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-13/from-listening-tour-to-fundraising-frenzy-manhattan-moguls-embrace-hillary-clinton
.

“The reality is that Clinton's avoidance”
:
Josh Kraushaar, “Hillary Clinton's Quiet Self-Sabotage,”
National Journal
, May 26, 2015,
http://www.nationaljournal.com/against-the-grain/hillary-clinton-s-quiet-self-sabotage-20150526
.

At a campaign event in Cedar Falls
:
Gabriel Debenedetti, “Fundraiser Puts Spotlight on Clinton Foundation Finances,”
Politico
, May 20, 2015,
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/fundraiser-clinton-foundation-finances-118128.html
.

“Spectacle of Clinton as candidate”
:
Tweet from Maggie Haberman
@maggieNYT
, July 4, 2015,
https://twitter.com/maggienyt/status/617399718239412224
.

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