| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 370 pages) |
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Critical America |
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Critical America.
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| Contents |
Case study in group polarization (with warnings for the future) / Cass R. Sunstein -- Sex and politics at the close of the twentieth century : a feminist looks back at the Clinton impeachment and the Thomas confirmation hearings / Elizabeth Rapaport -- Public, private, and the gender division of emotional labor / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Everything you thought you knew about impeachment is wrong / David T. Canon and Kenneth R. Mayer -- Pierre Elliot Trudeau : a Canadian scandal? / Leon E. Trakman -- Comparing the Independent Counsel to other prosecutors : privilege and other issues / Frank Tuerkheimer -- Legalizing outrage / Robert W. Gordon -- Gold standard and guilt-edged insecurities : the impeachment crucible as tragic farce / Aviam Soifer -- Sex, harm, and impeachment / Robin West -- Impeachment : a (civil) religious perspective / John Milton Cooper, Jr. -- Constitutional politics of the Clinton impeachment / Mark V. Tushnet -- Ontology in the Clinton era / Andrew D. Weiner -- All we had to do was rationalize the sex / Linda Denise Oakley -- Perjury and impeachment : the rule of law or the rule of lawyers? / Lawrence M. Solan -- Impeachment and enchanting arts / Eric Rothstein -- Year after the acquittal in the impeachment trial / Lawrence Joseph -- Un-Christian pursuit / Stephen Toulmin -- Abuse of power as a cultural construct / Lawrence Rosen -- Bill Clinton and the American character / Richard John Neuhaus -- Clinton scandal : law and morals / David Novak -- Spectacle and the libertine / David Kennedy -- Political is personal / Beverly I. Moran -- Dropped drawers : a viewpoint / Drucilla Cornell -- Penultimate : the meaning of impeachment and liberal governance / Leonard V. Kaplan |
| Summary |
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 months. Did the President lie or was it plausible that he had truthfully testified to no sexual relationship? Was the job search for Monica just help for a friend or a sinister means of obtaining silence? Even if all the charges were true, did impeachment follow or was censure enough? And what are the l |
| Notes |
Based on a conference held at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Feb. 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Impeachment -- Congresses
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Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Public opinion -- Congresses
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Clinton, Bill, 1946- fast |
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Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
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Presidents -- United States -- Public opinion -- Congresses
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Trials (Impeachment) -- United States -- Congresses
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Public opinion -- United States -- Congresses
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HISTORY.
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Impeachments
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Political culture
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Politics and government
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Presidents -- Public opinion
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Public opinion
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Trials (Impeachment)
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001 -- Congresses
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kaplan, Leonard V
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Moran, Beverly I
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| ISBN |
0585434859 |
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9780585434858 |
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9780814763506 |
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0814763502 |
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9780814747421 |
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0814747426 |
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9780814747438 |
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0814747434 |
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