The death of outrage
Bill Clinton and the assault on American ideals : [with a new afterword]
by William J. Bennett
"In The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals, former cabinet secretary and author William J. Bennett dismantles the president's defenses, brick by evasive brick, and analyzes the meaning of the Clinton scandals: why they matter, what the public reaction to them means, and the social and political damage they have already inflicted on America.
For, despite Bill Clinton's position in public opinion polls, the most persuasive public arguments made by the president's supporters wither under the clear light of moral reason and common sense.
The Death of Outrage exposes the fallacious and demeaning logic that argues our economic well-being is the only important measure of presidential performance; torpedoes the deep but wholly unexamined respect for European sophistication about "private matters"; and explains why the president's troubles are not the result of a "vast, right-wing conspiracy," but are the result of his own doings."--BOOK JACKET.
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Ethics, History, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral conditions, Political corruption, Politics and government, Sexual behavior, Social conditions, Large type books, United states, moral conditions, Clinton, bill, 1946-, Public opinion, united states, United states, politics and government, 1993-2001People
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The death of outrage: Bill Clinton and the assault on American ideals
1999, G.K. Hall
in English
0783804415 9780783804415
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The death of outrage: Bill Clinton and the assault on American ideals : [with a new afterword]
1999, Simon & Schuster, Free Press
in English
- 1st Touchstone ed.
0684864037 9780684864037
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The death of outrage: Bill Clinton and the assault on American ideals
1998, Free Press
in English
0684813726 9780684813721
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The death of outrage: Bill Clinton and the assault on American ideals
1998, Free Press
in English
0684813726 9780684813721
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In this new, updated edition of a book heralded as a clarion call to the nation's conscience, William Bennett asks why we see so little public outrage in the fade of the evidence of deep corruption within Bill Clinton's administration. The Death of Outrage examines the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it unfolded, from Clinton's denials that he had had sex with a young White House intern, to his testimony before the grand jury, to the nation's decision not to remove Clinton from office. Brick by brick, Bennett dismantles the wall of defenses offered by Clinton and his apologists, and casts the clear light of moral reason and common sense on a shameful chapter in American history. - Publisher.
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