American Rhapsody is a 2000 book by Joe Eszterhas, primarily about the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal.
[2] Eszterhas also writes about his own career in Hollywood, including chapters which negatively depict several celebrities.
[2][3] Eszterhas told the AP he was angered by Clinton's evasiveness during the scandal, saying "We really did believe in the '60s that the truth shall make us free.
Bruce Fretts of Entertainment Weekly called it "the Showgirls of political 'journalism' – a work of horrifying tastelessness, yet one so fascinatingly appalling that you simply cannot turn away".
[4] In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called it "outrageously funny" but "flagrantly self-righteous" and "a manic, mouthy, self-indulgent, impossible to ignore lament for America".