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Informationen zum Autor Mary Beth McConahey is assistant director of the Center for Political and Economic Thought at Saint Vincent College, where she teaches in the politics department. Klappentext The City and Sex examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time with an emphasis on the evolving responses of both statesmen and citizens reveals the republic's deteriorating moral health and illuminates the country's dangerous tendency toward servitude. Using scandals as a window through which to glimpse our deterioration, the book identifies a trajectory of decline beginning in the twentieth century, by which Americans became less tutored in virtue, less spirited in citizenship, less agreed on questions of moral significance, and ultimately less dexterous in exercising the skills of self-government. It seeks to show that the freedom from virtue won through the collapse of moral standards has produced an American citizenry increasingly prone to the kind of dependence and enslavement Alexis de Tocqueville cautioned against in the 1830s. Zusammenfassung This book examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time reveals the republic’s deteriorating moral health. The book shows how having freedom from virtue has produced an American citizenry increasingly prone to the kind of dependence and enslavement once described by Alexis de Tocqueville. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: American VirtueChapter 2: Scandals Over TimeChapter 3: Ancient ScandalsChapter 4: Modernity Burgeons Chapter 5: Thoroughly Modern PathologiesChapter 6: A Post-Modern PresidencyChapter 7: Disinterring SkeletonsConclusionAppendixesNotes Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: McConahey, Mary Beth McConahey, McConahey Mary Beth
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781498518284
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1828-4
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / United States / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, Sociology: sexual relations, Ethical issues & debates, History of the Americas, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Central / national / federal government, Ethical issues and debates, Central government, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, Citizenship;Liberty;Scandal;Virtue