Gennifer Flowers, or Cashmere McLeod in the book, would be most upset with how her situation was portrayer. The results from the book are extremely different from how they ended in real life. In the book Cashmere McLeod is a scandalous hairdresser who puts together fake tapes to accuse Stanton of sexual relations. Klein is correct in the events that Stanton denied relations on a 60 minutes episode and then Cashmere fired back in a press conference in which she played the “tapes”. In the book the scandal plays out only to fade and be dropped out of the campaign when in fact Gennifer Flowers put up a huge fight. Stanton never admits to the affaire in the book, when in fact Clinton eventually admits to an affaire. Gennifer would be most disappointed because her fight to prove she was right went on for quite some time. It went so far as to court. Gennifer also is no hairdresser. She worked as a “model” for the Penthouse magazine.
While the characters are based on real people the book itself is mostly fiction with little bits of reality thrown in. None of the characters in real life should expect to have a full biography about them. Something does have to be altered to make for a good book.
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Hmm so being a Penthouse model is better than being a hairdresser?? Interesting, Cari. I do agree, though, that there is a large disparity between how the fight to be proven correct was played out.
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