Monica Lewinsky tells her story in a videotaped testimony... but is there more to tell?

Web posted on: Friday, February 12, 1999 3:47:34 PM

(CNN) -- In the coming months, there will be several books published on the scandal that rocked William Jefferson Clinton's presidency. But only one comes directly from the source.

"Monica's Story" is regarded as the most anticipated release on the president's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The book is Lewinsky's collaboration with Princess Diana biographer Andrew Morton. It's being published by St. Martin's Press later this month (around the same time ABC hopes to air a Lewinsky interview) with a first printing of 200,000.

Lewinsky's side of the story has previously only been heard on tapes recorded without her knowledge by Linda Tripp, and in her testimony. Now it will be told with the help of Morton, who has a reputation for spilling juicy gossip.

Morton's book on Diana, "Diana: Her True Story," was a huge seller, as the princess chose to reveal to him the inside scoop on her troubled marriage to Prince Charles.

And then there's the rest: Clinton aide-turned-commentator George Stephanopoulos is expected to have his memoir "All Too Human" published in March. Other Washington insiders reported to be working on publishing deals include presidential friend Vernon Jordan and Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the first lawmaker to condemn Clinton on the Senate floor.

Several journalists are also working on books about the scandal.

Michael Isikoff, the Newsweek reporter who helped break the scandal, will come out with "Uncovering Clinton." Also expected are "A Vast Conspiracy," by The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin, and "To the Point of Knives," a look at Starr and his investigation, co-written by Washington Post reporter Susan Schmidt and Time magazine's Michael Weisskopf.

Alexander Cockburn and Christopher Hitchens, both columnists for the liberal weekly The Nation, are coming out with books as well. Cockburn's title is "The Joy of Sex: Bill Clinton and the Conquest of Puritanism"; Hitchens' is "Ask Not, Tell Not."

Literary agent Lucianne Goldberg first saw the potential for a book in September 1997 when she discussed with Linda Tripp how the latter could benefit from what she knew about the affair between the president and the intern.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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