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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction and Definitions
• 2. Watergate and its Legacy
• 3. Koreagate, Abscam, and Iran-Contra
• 4. From Monkey Business to Monicagate: Hijinks on the High Seas, Whitewater, a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, and the Rise of FOXNews
• 5. Governors Gone Wild: Buying Sex, Selling Senate Seats, And Hiking the Appalachian Trail
• 6. What's in the Water on Capitol Hill?
• 7. Clinton Scandals - 21st Century Version, but not Bill
• 8. Drinking from the Firehose: Trump, Social Media, and Late Night Comedy
• 9. A Conclusion. .