Gene Lyons is a political columnist and co-author with Joe Conason of The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, a documentary book published in 2000, with a supporting film. The book outlines a purported right wing campaign waged against President of the United States Bill Clinton leading eventually to the president's impeachment. It extends the discussion in Lyons' 1996 book Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater. Joe Conason is a United States-based journalist and author and is a noted commentator for liberal positions. ... The movie is about Bill Clinton and the attempt by the Arkansas Project to destroy his presidency. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... For other uses, see President of the United States (disambiguation). ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... Depiction of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, then President of the United States, in 1868. ...

Lyons is a native of Elizabeth, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers in 1965, and earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 1969. He taught at the University of Massachusetts, University of Arkansas and University of Texas before becoming a full-time writer in 1976. He has written hundreds of articles, essays and reviews for such magazines as Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Washington Monthly, The Nation, Esquire, Slate, and Salon. Union County Court House Elizabeth is a city in Union County, New Jersey, in the United States. ... Rutgers University Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is located in New Brunswick, Piscataway, Camden and Newark, New Jersey. ... The University of Virginia (also called U.Va. ... This page is about the university system across Massachusetts. ... The University of Arkansas is a public co-educational land-grant university. ... The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ... An issue of Harpers from 1905 November 2004 issue Harpers Magazine (or simply Harpers) is a monthly general-interest magazine covering literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts from a progressive, left perspective. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... This article is about the literary magazine. ... The Washington Monthly is a magazine based in Washington DC which covers American politics and government. ... The Nation (ISSN 0027-8378) is a weekly [1] U.S. periodical devoted to politics and culture, self-described as the flagship of the left. [2] Founded on July 6, 1865 as an Abolitionist publication, it is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. ... August 2005 issue of Esquire Esquire is a mens magazine by the Hearst Corporation. ... Slate Slate Macro Slate roof Slate is a fine-grained, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low grade regional metamorphism. ... Salon. ...

A winner of the 1980 National Magazine Award for Public Service for the Texas Monthly article “Why Teachers Can’t Teach,” he was an Associate Editor at Texas Monthly in 1981, and General Editor at Newsweek from 1982-86. His other books include “The Higher Illiteracy” (University of Arkansas, 1988), “Widow’s Web” (Simon & Schuster, 1993). Lyons writes a column for the Arkansas Democrat Gazette that is syndicated nationally by United Media. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. The National Magazine Award is a prestigious American award that honors excellence in the magazine industry. ... Texas Monthly is a monthly American magazine published in Austin, Texas. ... The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ... The University of Arkansas is a public co-educational land-grant university. ... Jean-François Millet Le Semeur (The Sower) Simon & Schuster logo, circa 1961. ... The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is a daily newspaper published in Little Rock, Arkansas. ... United Media is large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. ... Location in Pulaski County, Arkansas Coordinates: , Country State County Pulaski Founded 1821 Incorporated 1831 Government  - Mayor Mark Stodola Area  - City  116. ...

External links

• Once upon a time in Arkansas by Gene Lyons, Harper's Magazine, October, 1994