Men of the Year 1998

TIME chooses Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr as the Men of the Year while Mark McGwire takes on the Hero of the Year title

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Covering a Scandalous Year

politics, bill clinton, kenneth starr, monica lewinsky

Illustration for TIME by Tim O'Brien

TIME published 50 cover stories in 1998 and of those 14 have been devoted to the Monica Lewinsky scandal and its fallout. Many more issues contained extensive coverage of the controversy, as its twists and turns gripped the nation — or at least the media — week after week. In the following pages, we review the grim course of 1998.

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