Aftermath : : The Clinton Impeachment and the Presidency in the Age of Political Spectacle / / Leonard V. Kaplan; ed. by Beverly Moran.

• VerfasserIn: Kaplan, Leonard V.,
• MitwirkendeR: Canon, David T.,; Cooper, John Milton,; Elshtain, Jean Bethke,; Gordon, Robert W.,; Joseph, Lawrence,; Kaplan, Leonard V.,; Kennedy, David,; Mayer, Kenneth R.,; Moran, Beverly I.,; Neuhaus, Richard John,; Novak, David,; Oakley, Linda Denise,; Rapaport, Elizabeth,; Rosen, Lawrence,; Rothstein, Eric,; Soifer, Aviam,; Solan, Lawrence M.,; Sunstein, Cass R.,; Toulmin, Stephen,; Trakman, Leon E.,; Tuerkheimer, Frank,; Tushnet, Mark V.,; Weiner, Andrew D.,; West, Robin,
• HerausgeberIn: Moran, Beverly,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Critical America ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

With the specter of prosecution after his term is over and the possibility of disbarment in Arkansas hanging over President Clinton, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the events that have followed it show no sign of abating. The question has become what to do, and how to think, about those eight mont...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I Politics
• 1 A Case Study in Group Polarization (with Warnings for the Future)
• 2 Sex and Politics at the Close of the Twentieth Century: A Feminist Looks Back at the Clinton Impeachment and the Thomas Confirmation Hearings
• 3 Public, Private, and the Gender Division of Emotional Labor
• 4 Everything You Thought You Knew about Impeachment Is Wrong
• 5 Pierre Elliot Trudeau: A Canadian Scandal?
• Part II Law
• 6 Comparing the Independent Counsel to Other Prosecutors: Privilege and Other Issues
• 7 Legalizing Outrage
• 8 The Gold Standard and Guilt-Edged Insecurities: The Impeachment Crucible as Tragic Farce
• 9 Sex, Harm, and Impeachment
• 10 Impeachment: A (Civil) Religious Perspective
• 11 The Constitutional Politics of the Clinton Impeachment
• Part III Shaping Public Opinion
• 12 Ontology in the Clinton Era
• 13 All We Had to Do Was Rationalize the Sex
• 14 Perjury and Impeachment: The Rule of Law or the Rule of Lawyers?
• 15 Impeachment and Enchanting Arts
• 16 A Year after the Acquittal in the Impeachment Trial
• Part IV Religion
• 17 An Un-Christian Pursuit
• 18 Abuse of Power as a Cultural Construct
• 19 Bill Clinton and the American Character
• 20 The Clinton Scandal: Law and Morals
• Part V The Political Is Personal
• 21 The Spectacle and the Libertine
• 22 The Political Is Personal
• Conclusion: The Penultimate: The Meaning of Impeachment and Liberal Governance
• Contributors
• Index