Compromising Positions: Sex Scandals, Politics, and American Christianity

by Leslie Smith and Leslie Dorrough Smith

Americans have long believed that the private lives of their politicians are important indicators of their fitness to lead and of their ability to defend and uphold American values. For many, a sex scandal renders a person ineligible, or at the very least questionably qualified, for public service. In Compromising Positions, Leslie Dorrough Smith questions the assumption that sex scandals are really about sex-- that is, that they are primarily concerned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190924071
• ISBN13: 9780190924072
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"