High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton is a 1998 book about Bill Clinton by American conservative media commentator Ann Coulter. It was published by Regnery Publishing. Coulter promoted it on television, and it became a bestseller. Summary The book has sections on President Bill Clinton's alleged womanizing at government expense and his alleged lies (under oath) to cover up his actions. Coulter also writes about some of the other controversies surrounding Bill Clinton's presidency, including Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Wampumgate, the China secrets scandal, and the suicide of Vince Foster. In the last chapter, she reviews the history of the impeachment process and makes a case for Clinton's impeachment. Publication history High Crimes and Misdemeanors was first published in hardcover by Regnery Publishing in 1998. A paperback edition followed in 2002. Reception High Crimes and Misdemeanors received positive reviews from the journalist Matthew Scully in National Review, the legal scholar Robert Bork in The Wall Street Journal, and the activist James C. Roberts in Human Events. It received mixed reviews from Gilbert Taylor in Booklist and the legal scholar Vikram Amar in Constitutional Commentary and a negative review from The Economist. The book was also discussed by Daisy Maryles of Publishers Weekly. Scully credited Coulter with providing "a lively and unanswerable case as to the constitutional points". However, he believed that Coulter wrongly blamed Clinton for the "vice and vulgarity of modern culture". He compared the book to the conservative commentator William Bennett's The Death of Outrage (1998). Bork described the book as "readable and informative" and praised its "sprightly style". He agreed with Coulter that "the IRS, headed by a Clinton crony, conducted politically motivated audits of taxpayers." Roberts believed that Coulter provided a "useful review of the impeachment process in the Anglo-American tradition" and made a compelling case for Clinton's impeachment and removal from office. He also praised Coulter's discussion of the Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, and Whitewater scandals. Taylor described the book as "aggressive" and "hot selling", but questioned whether this was because of its content or because of Coulter's "incessant cable TV appearances". He believed that the book's best passages were those about the impeachment process. Amar believed that the book was not "good academic scholarship", but that it should nevertheless interest scholars, since it presented "an interesting, though by no means uncontested" discussion of Clinton's legal and political problems.