Aftermath : the Clinton impeachment and the presidency in the age of political spectacle /
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| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c2001. |
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| Description: | xiii, 370 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical America |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4505773 |
Table of 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
- 23. Dropped Drawers: A Viewpoint
- Conclusion: The Penultimate: The Meaning of Impeachment and Liberal Governance
- Contributors
- Index
