Glass Houses: Congressional Ethics and the Politics of Venom

ISBN-13: 9780367315962 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

Mary Tolchin

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While members of the House and Senate confront the public's changing attitudes toward money, sex, and power, they are also forced to raise ever-escalating sums to finance their campaigns. Practices tolerated a decade ago now may cost lawmakers their seats or land them in jail. Lawmakers often don't know if they live in Salem or Gomorrah. Using new

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The Ethics Wars -- The Apple and Other Temptations -- Joe McCarthy and the Ethics Process -- Abscam and the "Keating Five" -- The New Rules of the Ethics Wars -- Sex - The Sin of Hypocrisy -- Torricelli, the CIA, and the Intelligence Committee -- Forgery -- The Noble Lie -- The Politics of Venom

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Mary Tolchin