The death of outrage
Subtitle: Bill Clinton and the assault on American ideals : [with a new afterword]
By: William J. Bennett.
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Free Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Ethics.; Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Sexual behavior.; Political corruption -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001 -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Description: "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.
Notes: "A Touchstone book."