[2] In that volume, Brock claimed that he was pushed into the book assignment by what his publisher and agent wanted, but in any case, the clear expectation was that it would be a takedown in the style of his writings on Anita Hill and Bill Clinton.

[5] Having received the large advance and a tight one-year deadline from Simon & Schuster's then-conservatively focused Free Press subsidiary, Brock was under tremendous pressure to produce another bestseller.

"[6] Entertainment Weekly gave the book a 'D' (poor but not a complete failure) and said, "What could have actually been a rather poignant biography of a fascinating woman is marred by Brock's heavy reliance on previously published accounts, his leaden prose, the constant sense that he's proselytizing against Bill Clinton, and his naïveté about marriages in general and presidential ones in particular.

"[5] Writing for the New York Review of Books, Garry Wills assayed that Brock's goal was to establish a premise of a President Clinton becoming into a state of being out of control with unrestrained power going into his second term in office.

[10] Free Press had a first printing of 300,000 copies of the book, which per The Washington Post represented three times the sales of Brock's commercially successful job on Anita Hill.