Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine (ISBN 0-9746701-3-8) is a book by Candice E. Jackson. Published by conservative

American conservatism

Conservatism in the United States has played an important role in American politics since the 1950s. Historian Gregory Schneider identifies several constants in American conservatism: respect for tradition, support of republicanism, preservation of "the rule of law and the Christian religion", and...

 publisher World Ahead Publishing on May 31, 2005, it recounts the stories of seven women who crossed paths with Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

: Monica Lewinsky

Monica Lewinsky

Monica Samille Lewinsky is an American woman with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996...

, Paula Jones

Paula Jones

Paula Corbin Jones is a former Arkansas state employee who sued U.S. President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment. The lawsuit was dismissed before trial on the grounds that Jones failed to demonstrate any damages...

, Gennifer Flowers

Gennifer Flowers

Gennifer Flowers is a model and actress who allegedly had a sexual relationship with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Prior to Bill Clinton's presidency, she also posed nude for Penthouse magazine and was an actress in two films and one TV show...

, Kathleen Willey

Kathleen Willey

Kathleen Willey was a White House volunteer aide who, on March 15, 1998, alleged on the TV news program 60 Minutes that Bill Clinton had sexually assaulted her on November 29, 1993, during his first term as President...

, Elizabeth Gracen

Elizabeth Gracen

Elizabeth Ward Gracen is an American actress who won the title of Miss America in 1982. She was born Elizabeth Grace Ward but should not be confused with another Elizabeth Ward who worked as a television actress during the first half of the 1980s....

, Juanita Broaddrick

Juanita Broaddrick

Juanita Broaddrick is an American former nursing home administrator from Arkansas. She alleged in 1998 that United States President Bill Clinton had raped her two decades earlier...

, and Sally Perdue

Sally Perdue

Sally Perdue is a former 1958 Miss Arkansas and Little Rock radio talk show host. She was a top-10 finalist in the 1959 Miss America pageant....

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It was intended to be a rebuttal

Rebuttal

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 to the former president's best-selling memoir

Memoir

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, My Life

My Life (Bill Clinton autobiography)

My Life is a 2004 autobiography written by former President of the United States Bill Clinton, who left office on January 20, 2001. It was released on June 22, 2004. The book was published by the Knopf Publishing Group; the book sold in excess of 2,250,000 copies...

. The author suggests that Clinton's inner circle

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 bribed, intimidated, and harassed these women when they fell out of his favor. She also argues that Hillary Clinton's active involvement in these attacks should make women oppose her potential White House

White House

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 campaign. Jackson concedes that one of her goals in writing the book is to attempt to prevent Hillary Clinton from being elected.http://www.cnsnews.com/Politics/Archive/200505/POL20050531a.html

News coverage and controversy

The book received heavy media coverage when it was released, including coverage by the Drudge Report

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 and New York Post

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s Page Six,http://pqarchiver.nypost.com/nypost/access/840747741.html?dids=840747741:840747741&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+17%2C+2005&author=&pub=New+York+Post&edition=&startpage=010&desc=FASHION+DUD+MARIAH+SHAPES+UP an appearance by Jackson on C-SPAN,http://www.booktv.org/General/index.asp?segID=5856&schedID=354 and even an article on China Daily titled "Clinton Accused of Raping Nurse in New Book."http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-06/01/content_447609.htm Critics focused on its lack of objectivity, for example calling it "yet another new Clinton-bashing book" and noting that many of the more controversial stories have not been proven.http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/multi-page/documents/04761835.asp The liberal news organization Media Matters for America

Media Matters for America

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 also attacked the book.http://mediamatters.org/items/200506030008 However, it drew vocal praise from many Clinton critics, including the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/archive/s_335673.html WorldNetDaily

WorldNetDaily

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,http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44415 FrontPageMagazine,http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18493 and Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III is an American radio talk show host, conservative political commentator, and an opinion leader in American conservatism. He hosts The Rush Limbaugh Show which is aired throughout the U.S. on Premiere Radio Networks and is the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United...

.http://www.worldaheadpublishing.com/titles/rushOnTL.php

The book made further news when Jackson was blocked from visiting Bill Clinton's office in Harlem

Harlem

Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands...

 to request an apology for the alleged rape of Juanita Broaddrick

Juanita Broaddrick

Juanita Broaddrick is an American former nursing home administrator from Arkansas. She alleged in 1998 that United States President Bill Clinton had raped her two decades earlier...

.http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44592 Jackson subsequently escorted Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey

Kathleen Willey

Kathleen Willey was a White House volunteer aide who, on March 15, 1998, alleged on the TV news program 60 Minutes that Bill Clinton had sexually assaulted her on November 29, 1993, during his first term as President...

 on a tour of the Bill Clinton Presidential Library to draw attention to Clinton's attempts to conceal his alleged past actions. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173624,00.html Both women had previously issued statements endorsing the book's account of their encounters with Clinton. http://www.worldaheadpublishing.com/titles/theirLives.php Search engine service Google

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also drew criticism from the author and the publisher for allegedly refusing to host online ads for the book.http://www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/search-marketing/33072.html