![]() ![]() Klein, 74, seems not to mind the notoriety. His book on Hillary, The Truth about Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She Will Go to Become President, published in 2005 when Hillary was enjoying rave reviews as a New York senator, caused friends to disinvite him to parties and acquaintances to accost him in restaurants, saying, “Did you do that for the money? Is that why you wrote that book?” ![]() ![]() His first biography, and the one of which he says he’s most proud, All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy, published in 1996, cost him his friendship with Jackie. He became the pen behind the Parade magazine gossip column, “Walter Scott’s Personality Parade,” and he became a writer of unauthorized biographies-seven so far, including several books on the Kennedys, a harshly critical book about Hillary Clinton, and a biography of former CBS news anchor Katie Couric. Ed Klein, the former editor of The New York Times Magazine (1977-87) and foreign editor of Newsweek, was in Chicago this week to conduct interviews for his latest biography-this one focusing on Barack and Michelle Obama and their friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett and their interactions in the White House.Īfter being forced to resign from the Times magazine-a change of regimes, he explains-Klein’s life took a very different course. ![]()
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