“... and Canada. The modelling school. Selling Russian cars on the US market. I’m trying to get Bill Clinton involved in a green project converting waste to energy: a friend of a friend was at college with Hillary.’ Everyone you meet in Little Russia seems to have another business on the side. At the Cosmos party, doctors I ...”

“... the way to the end. Decca continued to make new friends, including Nora Ephron, Salman Rushdie and Hillary Rodham, who she thought was too good for Bill Clinton. She died of cancer at home on 23 July 1996. ‘It is so ODD to be dying,’ she wrote, from her downstairs bedroom to Bob, who was asleep upstairs. ‘I must just ...”

“... and the Arab League was the best news Syria’s silent majority has had for months. In spite of Hillary Clinton’s rhetoric, Washington may be backing away from demanding Assad’s resignation. The signs are that the US and the Arab League fear that to support the opposition is to encourage the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis. ...”

“... move. One of the crisper exchanges in The Biography occurs when Roth offers to help Chelsea Clinton with any papers she might write about his work, and Hillary shoots back: ‘She doesn’t need any help.’ Hillary really should have been president.Later in life Roth would lament ...”