The only thing that is deliberately fictional about Charles McCarry's new political thriller Lucky Bastard is his disclaimer that the book is "a work of imagination in which no character is based on anyone who ever lived." It is, in fact, a fantasy about Bill and Hillary Clinton -- who, in…

IT HAPPENED TO WOODROW WILSON IN 1918, to FDR in 1936, to Harry Truman in 1950, to Dwight Eisenhower in 1958, to Lyndon Johnson in 1966, to Nixon-Ford in 1974, and to Ronald Reagan in 1986. It will surely happen to Bill Clinton in 1998: the sixth-year rejection of the party that controls the White…