Dobbs noted the "salacious nature” of the biography and "the highly personal attacks that you bring to bear .. But this is reaching to a personal level that is extraordinary.”

Klein noted some allegations, such as claims Bill raped Hillary, are not to be found in his book. He reminded Dobbs that some of the sensational items about Hillary simply could not be avoided.

"It's impossible to do a biography of Hillary without discussing” such matters, he said, referring to sex scandals that plagued the Clinton presidency.

Today, Sen. Clinton is trying to remake her image, Klein suggested. Klein cited her appearance this weekend with Billy Graham in New York as an effort to do so.

"I don't believe in coincidences,” Klein said, adding, "And I don't believe that Hillary Clinton was sitting on the stage with the most famous evangelist in America at a time when she's trying to convince the entire country that she believes in God, prayer, family, patriotism, and (that) she isn't a leftist.”

Dobbs also asked the bestselling author about efforts to keep him off TV.

"A number of networks and broadcasts have cancelled your show. We thank you for being here. When do you appear again on television?"

Klein responded, "Well, whenever the Clintons stop preventing me from appearing, since they've done a full court press with ABC, CBS, and NBC to keep me off."

Since his first appearance on Fox News early last week, Klein has been hit with a deluge of cancellations from most of the major television networks who had scheduled him.

NewsMax reported Monday that Klein had been the victim of an organized censorship effort by the Clinton camp to keep him off major television shows.

CNN host Howard Kurtz also reported this weekend that Sen. Clinton's office was actively trying to suppress the book by encouraging television shows not to give Klein air time.

On his "Reliable Sources" show Kurtz said, "A spokesman for Senator Clinton told me that when news organizations call, they do make the argument, 'Why give this guy airtime?'"

In most cases, the effort has apparently worked. For example, Klein had been scheduled for MSNBC's "Scarborough Country" Monday night, but his appearance was abruptly cancelled earlier in the day.

In a thinly veiled dig at others who have succumbed to pressure to keep Klein off the air, Dobbs concluded his interview by noting: "We'll continue to have folks [on], irrespective of what the other folks are doing."

Klein had been booked on nearly a dozen shows, besides Dobbs. But only the Fox News Channel and the Sinclair Broadcasting’s News Central kept their initial commitment – though Fox has since cancelled three scheduled appearances with the author.

Sinclair managing editor Carl Gottlieb said on Monday that he wasn't fazed by the rest of the media's disdain for Klein's book.

"That's why we exist - to report stories other people won't," he told NewsMax.