Scandal: How ''Gotcha'' Politics Is Destroying America

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Prologue......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
PART I: It Didn’t Begin with Watergate......Page 30
1 Revolutionary Venom, Its Progeny and The Gentlemen’s Agreement from Harding to Kennedy......Page 32
2 Seeds of the Culture Wars: The 1960s......Page 60
PART II: Watergate Legacies......Page 86
3 The Post–Watergate Media Revolution......Page 88
4 The Scandal Cauldron: The 1980s......Page 102
5 To Be “Borked” and “Gingriched”......Page 126
PART III: The 1990s Scandal Machine Implosion......Page 140
6 Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton: Bookends to the Scandal Culture......Page 142
7 The Clinton “Scandals”: Much Smoke, Little Fire......Page 166
8 Death of the Independent Counsel Statute—And Good Riddance......Page 194
9 The Boomerang Effect: Gingrich and Livingston......Page 210
PART IV: The Revolt of the Center......Page 218
10 Hypocrisies on the Left and Right......Page 220
11 The New Center......Page 244
12 Purple Nation and the “Grand Coalition” Government......Page 260
Notes......Page 274
C......Page 298
D......Page 299
H......Page 300
K......Page 301
O......Page 302
S......Page 303
W......Page 304
Z......Page 305