Marty Tolchin

Glass Houses (eBook, PDF)

Congressional Ethics And The Politics Of Venom

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Congressional ethics process has been transformed into a lethal, partisan political tool, feared by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. . Newt Gingrich, the Ghengis Khan of recent American politics, wrenched the humdrum Congressional ethics process out of its lethargy and turned it into an offensive tool for partisan gain. Now, instead of yawning, lawmakers quake at the thought of an ethics inquiry that can easily, often unfairly, tip elections and ruin careers. 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 information culled from dozens of Capitol Hill interviews, Sue and Marty Tolchin show how ethics in Washington have changed over two centuries while offering new interpretations of past ethics cases. The first book to analyse the politicization of the ethics process, Glass Houses reveals in wicked and telling detail the forces that drive the modern lawmaker into a maelstrom of fierce corruption battles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429968761
• Artikelnr.: 54171580

Autorenporträt

Mary Tolchin

Inhaltsangabe

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