Political Scandal and American Pop Culture Sex, Power, and Cover-Ups /

• Main Author: Twombly, Jim (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: United States-Politics and government.; World politics.; Popular Culture.; Communication.; United States-Study and teaching.; US Politics.; Political History.; Popular Culture .; Media and Communication.; American Culture.

This book provides a newer definition of political scandal and applies it in a way to remove "ordinary corruption" from the discussion. It then defines pop culture and examines how scandal and pop culture interact. The discussion addresses the question: when does a scandal actually enter i...