In the summer of 1995, Monica Lewinsky, twenty-one years old and fresh from college, was taken on as an unpaid summer intern by the office of Legislative Affairs in the White House, a job which brought her into contact with the President of the United States, Bill Clinton What happened next has been documented worldwide This biography portrays Monica as a generous-hearted but troubled American girl, whose apparently 'ideal' background propelled her into a series of self-destructive relationships with older men