If the Watergate scandal was a previous generation's National Nightmare, then maybe the Clinton scandal was our National Wet Dream, and who better to narrate it than the screenwriter JoeEszterhas? In "American Rhapsody," Eszterhas, whose credits include "Basic Instinct" and "Showgirls, "and "Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse, " forwhich he was nominated for a National Book Award, takes us through the events that threatened to topple a president and left most of the nation's citizens with, at the very least, a bad taste in theirmouths.Taking full advantage of his considerable journalistic and storytelling talents, Eszterhas gives us every fact, rumor, or innuendo surrounding the president'sfoibles in the context of late century American politics and entertainment. Here Washington and Hollywood do more than just flirt with each other; they share the same bed. From scandalmongers MattDrudge (who began as a Hollywood gossip) and Ken Starr, to would-be president paramours Sharon Stone and Barbra Streisand, to his final, unimpeachable witness, Willard--none other than President Clinton's talkingpenis--Eszterhas gives us the goods on the story that nobody could stop talking about and, thanks to "American Rhapsody, "will be impossible to think about the same wayagain."From the Trade Paperback edition."words : 183901