Aftermath: The Clinton Impeachment and the Presidency in the Age of Political Spectacle

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Beverly I. Moran p a r t i Politics 1 A Case Study in Group Polarization (with Warnings for the Future) 11 Cass R. Sunstein 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 Elizabeth Rapaport 3 Public, Private, and the Gender Division of Emotional Labor 34 Jean Bethke Elshtain 4 Everything You Thought You Knew about Impeachment Is Wrong 47 David T. Canon and Kenneth R. Mayer 5 Pierre Elliot Trudeau: A Canadian Scandal? 63 Leon E. Trakman p a r t i i Law 6 Comparing the Independent Counsel to Other Prosecutors: Privilege and Other Issues 83 Frank Tuerkheimer viii 7 Legalizing Outrage 97 Robert W. Gordon 8 The Gold Standard and Guilt-Edged Insecurities: The Impeachment Crucible as Tragic Farce 113 Aviam Soifer 9 Sex, Harm, and Impeachment 129 Robin West 10 Impeachment: A (Civil) Religious Perspective 150 John Milton Cooper, Jr. 11 The Constitutional Politics of the Clinton Impeachment 162 Mark V. Tushnet p a r t i i i Shaping Public Opinion 12 Ontology in the Clinton Era 179 Andrew D. Weiner 13 All We Had to Do Was Rationalize the Sex 186 Linda Denise Oakley 14 Perjury and Impeachment: The Rule of Law or the Rule of Lawyers? 199 Lawrence M. Solan 15 Impeachment and Enchanting Arts 212 Eric Rothstein 16 A Year after the Acquittal in the Impeachment Trial 226 Lawrence Joseph p a r t i v Religion 17 An Un-Christian Pursuit 237 Stephen Toulmin 18 Abuse of Power as a Cultural Construct 243 Lawrence Rosen 19 Bill Clinton and the American Character 253 Richard John Neuhaus Contents ix 20 The Clinton Scandal: Law and Morals 267 David Novak p a r t v The Political Is Personal 21 The Spectacle and the Libertine 279 David Kennedy 22 The Political Is Personal 297 Beverly I. Moran 23 Dropped Drawers: A Viewpoint 312 Drucilla Cornell Conclusion: The Penultimate: The Meaning of Impeachment and Liberal Governance 321 Leonard V. Kaplan Contributors 353 Index 359 x Contents ...