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Book Review of The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals

The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals
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Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate, diversion, half truth, equivocation and sophistry. It is a wall that has remained unbreached. Until now. William J. Bennett dismantles the president's defenses, and analyzes the meaning of the Clinton scandals: Why they matter, what the public reaction to them means, and the social and political damage that have already inflicted on America. The Death of Outrage shows why the Clinton scandals -f rom the Travel Office, to filegate, to the Rose Law Firm billling reords, to the Lewinsky Affair - are neither a creation of the tabloid press, nor indepenant of one antoher.