| Description |
1 online resource (x, 337 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Grover the good, Belshazzar Blaine, and the rapacious woman -- In the presence of the elect (with the world looking on) -- Aimee Semple McPherson and the devil -- Confession goes public -- Ted Kennedy misreads his public -- Jimmy Carter, traitor to the cause -- Jim Bakker shoots his allies -- Jimmy Swaggart's model confession -- Clinton and the three public confessions -- Unaware of change -- Conclusion: Predictions |
| Summary |
Whether you are a politician caught carrying on with an intern or a minister photographed with a prostitute, discovery does not necessarily spell the end of your public career. Admit your sins carefully, using the essential elements of an evangelical confession identified by Susan Wise Bauer in The Art of the Public Grovel, and you, like Bill Clinton, just might survive. In this fascinating and important history of public confession in modern America, Bauer explains why and how a type of confession that first arose among nineteenth-century evangelicals has today become the required form for an |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sex scandals -- United States -- History
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Politicians -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History
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Presidents -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History
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Confession -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
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Evangelicalism -- United States
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Sexuality.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Leadership.
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Evangelicalism
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Moral conditions
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Politicians -- Sexual behavior
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Presidents -- Sexual behavior
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Sex scandals
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Moral conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140383
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400830022 |
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1400830028 |
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