TY - BOOK AU - Wittes,Benjamin TI - Starr: a reassessment SN - 9780300127485 AV - KF5076.C57 W58 2002 U1 - 345.7301 23 PY - 2002/// CY - New Haven, [Conn.], London PB - Yale University Press KW - Starr, Kenneth, KW - Clinton, Bill, KW - Lewinsky, Monica S. KW - Special prosecutors KW - United States KW - Interviews KW - Governmental investigations KW - Law KW - ukslc KW - Jurisprudence & general issues KW - thema KW - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - This book is a serious, impartial effort to evaluate and critique Kenneth Starr's tenure as independent counsel. Relying on revealing interviews with Starr and many other players in Clinton-era Washington, the book arrives at a new understanding of Starr and the part he played in one of American history's most enthralling public sagas. It offers a deeply considered portrait of a decent man who fundamentally misconstrued his function under the independent counsel law. Starr took his task to be ferreting out and reporting the truth about official misconduct, a well-intentioned but nevertheless misguided distortion of the law, the book argues UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300092523.001.0001 ER -