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

Leonard V. Kaplan

Published by New York University Press 2001

Aftermath

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

Leonard V. Kaplan
Edited by: Beverly Moran

Volume 7 in the series Critical America

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814749388.001.0001

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About this book

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 lasting repercussions on the office of the Presidency?
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.

Author / Editor information

Kaplan Leonard V. :

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.Moran Beverly :

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).Leonard V. Kaplan (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).

Reviews

Martha Minow,author of Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence:
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.

Blanche Wiesen Cook,author of Eleanor Roosevelt:
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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	c
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgments Beverly I. Moran Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Beverly I. Moran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Politics
1 A Case Study in Group Polarization (with Warnings for the Future) Cass R. Sunstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
3 Public, Private, and the Gender Division of Emotional Labor Jean Bethke Elshtain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
4 Everything You Thought You Knew about Impeachment Is Wrong David T. Canon and Kenneth R. Mayer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
5 Pierre Elliot Trudeau: A Canadian Scandal? Leon E. Trakman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Part II Law
6 Comparing the Independent Counsel to Other Prosecutors: Privilege and Other Issues Frank Tuerkheimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
7 Legalizing Outrage Robert W. Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
8 The Gold Standard and Guilt-Edged Insecurities: The Impeachment Crucible as Tragic Farce Aviam Soifer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
9 Sex, Harm, and Impeachment Robin West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
10 Impeachment: A (Civil) Religious Perspective John Milton Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
11 The Constitutional Politics of the Clinton Impeachment Mark V. Tushnet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Part III Shaping Public Opinion
12 Ontology in the Clinton Era Andrew D. Weiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
13 All We Had to Do Was Rationalize the Sex Linda Denise Oakley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
14 Perjury and Impeachment: The Rule of Law or the Rule of Lawyers? Lawrence M. Solan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
15 Impeachment and Enchanting Arts Eric Rothstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
16 A Year after the Acquittal in the Impeachment Trial Lawrence Joseph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Part IV Religion
17 An Un-Christian Pursuit Stephen Toulmin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
18 Abuse of Power as a Cultural Construct Lawrence Rosen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
19 Bill Clinton and the American Character Richard John Neuhaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
20 The Clinton Scandal: Law and Morals David Novak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Part V The Political Is Personal
21 The Spectacle and the Libertine David Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
22 The Political Is Personal Beverly I. Moran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Conclusion: The Penultimate: The Meaning of Impeachment and Liberal Governance Leonard V. Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	352
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: August 1, 2001
ISBN: 9780814749388