Aftermath: The Clinton Impeachment and the Presidency in the Age of Political Spectacle
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Overview
Aftermath: The Clinton Impeachment and the Presidency in the Age of Political Spectacle takes a multi-disciplinary approach to analyze the Clinton impeachment from political perspectives across the spectrum. The authors attempt to tease out the meanings of the scandal from the vantage point of law, religion, public opinion, and politics, both public and personal. Further, the impeachment itself is situated broadly within the contemporary American liberal state and mined for the contradictory possibilities for reconciliation it reveals in our culture.
Contributors: David T. Canon, John Cooper, Drucilla Cornell, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Robert W. Gordon, Lawrence Joseph, Leonard V. Kaplan, David Kennedy, Kenneth R. Mayer, Beverly I. Moran, Father Richard John Neuhaus, David Novak, Linda Denise Oakley, Elizabeth Rapaport, Lawrence Rosen, Eric Rothstein, Aviam Soifer, Lawrence M. Solan, Cass R. Sunstein, Stephen Toulmin, Leon Trakman, Frank Tuerkheimer, Mark V. Tushnet, Andrew D. Weiner, Robin L. West.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780814747438 |
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Publisher: | New York University Press |
Publication date: | 08/01/2001 |
Series: | Critical America , #7 |
Pages: | 296 |
Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.43(d) |
About the Author
Leonard V. Kaplan is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Law has co-edited six books, and has written over thirty articles. He was a co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of a journal, Graven Images: Studies in Culture, Law and the Sacred.
Beverly Moran (Editor)
Beverly Moran is the Voss-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, and Director of the Wisconsin Center on Law and Africa and the editor of Race and Wealth Disparities: A Multidisciplinary Discourse (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008) and editor of Aftermath: The Clinton Impeachment and the Presidency in the Age of Political Spectacle (NYU Press, 2001).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | xi | |
Introduction | 1 | |
Part I | Politics | |
1 | A Case Study in Group Polarization (with Warnings for the Future) | 11 |
2 | Sex and Politics at the Close of the Twentieth Century: A Feminist Looks Back at the Clinton Impeachment and the Thomas Confirmation Hearings | 22 |
3 | Public, Private, and the Gender Division of Emotional Labor | 34 |
4 | Everything You Thought You Knew about Impeachment Is Wrong | 47 |
5 | Pierre Elliot Trudeau: A Canadian Scandal? | 63 |
Part II | Law | |
6 | Comparing the Independent Counsel to Other Prosecutors: Privilege and Other Issues | 83 |
7 | Legalizing Outrage | 97 |
8 | The Gold Standard and Guilt-Edged Insecurities: The Impeachment Crucible as Tragic Farce | 113 |
9 | Sex, Harm, and Impeachment | 129 |
10 | Impeachment: A (Civil) Religious Perspective | 150 |
11 | The Constitutional Politics of the Clinton Impeachment | 162 |
Part III | Shaping Public Opinion | |
12 | Ontology in the Clinton Era | 179 |
13 | All We Had to Do Was Rationalize the Sex | 186 |
14 | Perjury and Impeachment: The Rule of Law or the Rule of Lawyers? | 199 |
15 | Impeachment and Enchanting Arts | 212 |
16 | A Year after the Acquittal in the Impeachment Trial | 226 |
Part IV | Religion | |
17 | An Un-Christian Pursuit | 237 |
18 | Abuse of Power as a Cultural Construct | 243 |
19 | Bill Clinton and the American Character | 253 |
20 | The Clinton Scandal: Law and Morals | 267 |
Part V | The Political Is Personal | |
21 | The Spectacle and the Libertine | 279 |
22 | The Political Is Personal | 297 |
23 | Dropped Drawers: A Viewpoint | 312 |
Conclusion: The Penultimate: The Meaning of Impeachment and Liberal Governance | 321 | |
Contributors | 353 | |
Index | 359 |
What People are Saying About This
The first serious collection of academic reflections about the scandal, the essays in Aftermath offer citizens, students, lawyers, and historians fresh insights about American law and liberalism, about culture wars and family values, and about the politics of scandal in the late twentieth century.", -Martha Minow,author of Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence
"History will be forever haunted by the 20th century's last, longest, legalistic right-wing coup attempt against a popular president. Limited to sleazy sex, political and policy differences were downplayed. The important, splendid, controversial essays collected in Aftermath provide learned context for this defining, though bizarre moment in American history and culture. Everyone interested in the individual and the law, politics and the future will want to read this book."-Blanche Wiesen Cook,author of Eleanor Roosevelt