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The Strange Death of Vincent Foster

Book by Christopher Ruddy

Field	Value
name	The Strange Death of Vincent Foster: An Investigation
image	File:The Strange Death of Vincent Foster.jpg
caption	Cover of the first edition
author	Christopher Ruddy
country	United States
language	English
subject	Suicide of Vince Foster
publisher	Free Press
pub_date	1997
media_type	Print
pages	320
isbn	978-0-684-83837-3

The Strange Death of Vincent Foster: An Investigation is a 1997 book by the journalist Christopher Ruddy. Ruddy first wrote about the Foster story while reporting for The New York Post and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, owned by the millionaire Richard Scaife. The book is about a conspiracy theory tying Bill and Hillary Clinton to the alleged murder of Vincent Foster. There were three separate official investigations of Foster's death, each concluding that he committed suicide. Ruddy believes Kenneth Starr's investigation was part of the conspiracy, calling Starr a "patsy for the Clintonites and those that believe that the stability and reputation of America is more important than justice."

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Former FBI Director William S. Sessions described Ruddy's inquiry into Foster's death as "serious and compelling". Richard Brookhiser (editor of the conservative National Review) wrote in The New York Times that "Ruddy argues that his doubts do not require him to posit some vast conspiracy of silence... At the same time Ruddy clearly believes that something dastardly happened, and he cannot stop dark hints from leaking out." Brookhiser wrote "'If,' Ruddy writes on page 1, Vince Foster 'had been killed ...' If Ruddy didn't want to make such an Oliver Stone argument, even hypothetically, he should have left his rhetorical teasers on the cutting-room floor."

Jacob Cohen (professor at Brandeis University) wrote in National Review that the book was "conspiracy central", while Ann Coulter "ripped it as a 'conservative hoax book' that was 'discredited' by conservatives." A Slate review called the book "absurd".

References

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/docs/foster.htm Full text] of the report on the 1993 death of White House counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr., compiled by Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr
Isikoff, Michael. (19 October 1997). "The Strange Case of Christopher Ruddy". [[Slate (magazine).
(1997-09-28). "Body Politics". [[The New York Times]].
(2005-10-06). "A Tale of Two Prosecutors".
(1997-10-19). "The Strange Case of Christopher Ruddy". [[Slate (magazine).

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