Description: With unprecedented access to virtually all of the players -- major and minor -- Washington Post reporter Peter Baker tells the riveting story of one of the most critical six months in our nation's history, the first impeachment trial of an elected president. Based on 275 original interviews, confidential investigation files, diaries, and tape recordings, The Breach clearly depicts the public and legal events as they unfolded. In addition, Baker goes behind the scenes and packs the book with newsworthy revelations -- among them, details of the infighting among the president's staff, a tour of the War Room set up by Tom DeLay to three Clinton out of Office by any means -- impeachment or forced resignation, accounts of the agonizing considerations of the various members of Congress, descriptions of the months during which the Clintons did not speak to each other, and the fears of various legislators that their own sex lives would be exposed.

All of this, and much more, makes The Breach one of the most important volumes of history and revealing books of contemporary politics of our generation.

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