The Scarlet Thread of Scandal: Morality and the American PresidencyRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 22.12.1999 - 224 Seiten Never before have Americans been more concerned about the moral dimensions of presidential leadership. What role should morality play in the decision making of our most powerful elected official? What did the Founders think about the significance of morality in this cherished political institution? Does the private behavior of a president influence his or her ability to lead our nation? In The Scarlet Thread of Scandal, eminent scholar Charles W. Dunn turns a penetrating eye to the history of presidential scandals to answer these and other pressing questions. Scandals are surely nothing new in the White House_ever since the creation of the republic, presidents have made morally questionable judgments, whether constitutional, ethical, legal, or personal. In eloquent and judicious prose, Dunn chronicles the numerous controversies in presidential history, paying particular attention to their impact on the American people and public memory. The Scarlet Thread of Scandal will make all Americans think differently about past, present, and future presidents. |
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... Jefferson Clinton reveals a range of scandals, from Roosevelt's affair with Lucy Mercer, to Kennedy's alleged links with the Mafia, Reagan's involvement in the Iran–Contra arms-for-hostages deal, and Clinton's sexual peccadilloes. Sex ...
... Jefferson Clinton reveals a range of scandals, from Roosevelt's affair with Lucy Mercer, to Kennedy's alleged links with the Mafia, Reagan's involvement in the Iran–Contra arms-for-hostages deal, and Clinton's sexual peccadilloes. Sex ...
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... Jefferson, who was not a Christian, held to a Christian view of the nature of man: Free government is founded on jealousy, not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind those we are ...
... Jefferson, who was not a Christian, held to a Christian view of the nature of man: Free government is founded on jealousy, not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind those we are ...
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... Jefferson were the best known adherents of Deism. Second, transcendentalism, spring— ing up in the mid-nineteenth century, taught that everyone has a spark of divinity within and that no one is born into sin.Various utopian faiths also ...
... Jefferson were the best known adherents of Deism. Second, transcendentalism, spring— ing up in the mid-nineteenth century, taught that everyone has a spark of divinity within and that no one is born into sin.Various utopian faiths also ...
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... Jefferson's idea that a wall of separa— tion should stand between church and school, religion and government, the Court severely restricted the public practice of religion.John Dun— phy, writing in the Humanist, put the changes in bold ...
... Jefferson's idea that a wall of separa— tion should stand between church and school, religion and government, the Court severely restricted the public practice of religion.John Dun— phy, writing in the Humanist, put the changes in bold ...
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... Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin recognized and responded to the dominant Christian consensus of the Founding.Third, the term “law of nature,” used by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, came from Blackstone's Commentaries ...
... Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin recognized and responded to the dominant Christian consensus of the Founding.Third, the term “law of nature,” used by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, came from Blackstone's Commentaries ...
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5 TARNISHING THE GOLDEN AGE 19611975 | 113 |
6 POSTMODERN PRESIDENTIAL MORALITY | 137 |
7 THE SEAMLESS GARMENT OF MORALITY | 165 |
NOTES | 187 |
1 THE SCARLET THREAD OF SCANDAL | 1 |
2 THE MORAL KALEIDOSCOPE | 17 |
3 ORIGINS OF MORAL CONFLICT IN THE MODERN ERA | 41 |
4 PRESIDENTIAL SCANDAL IN A GOLDEN AGE 19321960 | 79 |
5 TARNISHING THE GOLDEN AGE 19611975 | 113 |
6 POSTMODERN PRESIDENTIAL MORALITY | 137 |
7 THE SEAMLESS GARMENT OF MORALITY | 165 |
NOTES | 187 |
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