Kenneth Starr will be remembered in the popular imagination as the soft-spoken but tenacious Republican special prosecutor locked in mortal combat with Democratic President William Jefferson Clinton and his White House—a battle which culminated in impeachment proceedings for only the second time in U.S. history. Starr, a former Federal Appeals Court judge and solicitor general under President George Bush, was appointed as Independent Counsel by U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno in 1994 to investigate allegations of wrong-doing by the former Arkansas governor William Jefferson Clinton, his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton, and their various business and personal associates. Starr's investigation, which began as an attempt to ascertain if the President and First Lady had illegally benefited from a land deal in Arkansas, culminated in the referral of a controversial report to the U.S. House of Representatives regarding President Clinton's affair with a...