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Read [The Honorable Richard A. Posner Book] ! An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton President Bill Clinton's year of crisis, which began when his affair with Monica Lewinsky hit the front pages in January 1998, engendered a host of important questions of criminal and constitutional law, public and private morality, and political and cultural conflict. He explains the legal definitions of obstruction of justice and perjury, which even many lawyers are unfamiliar with. And he examines the place of impeachment in the American constitutional scheme, the pros and cons of impeaching
| Title | : | An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.68 (873 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674000803 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
President Bill Clinton's year of crisis, which began when his affair with Monica Lewinsky hit the front pages in January 1998, engendered a host of important questions of criminal and constitutional law, public and private morality, and political and cultural conflict. He explains the legal definitions of obstruction of justice and perjury, which even many lawyers are unfamiliar with. And he examines the place of impeachment in the American constitutional scheme, the pros and cons of impeaching President Clinton, and the major procedural issues raised by both the impeachment in the House and the trial in the Senate. He compares and contrasts the Clinton affair with Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, exploring the subtle relationship between public and private morality. In a book written while the events of the year were unfolding, Richard Posner presents a balanced and scholarly understanding of the crisis that also has the freshness and immediacy of journalism. He carefully assesses the conduct of Starr and his prosecutors, including their contacts with the lawyers for Paula Jones and their hardball tactics with Monica Lewinsky and her mother. Posner cl
"The Next Century's History -- Today" according to A Customer. Every day I get up and thank heaven that I'm fortunate enough to be alive during Judge Posner's career. He is certainly the first person to be conversant with so large a portion of the culture of his times since Aristotle, or perhaps Aquinas, and his writing is far more clever and enjoyable to read that that of either of those philosophers. Posner is probably the first writer to articulate what is likely to be t. "Keep your mind open and you will enjoy this book." according to Theresa in Texas. No one can read this book without appreciating the facile mind and no-holds-barred candor of Judge Posner. I would recommend that readers let down their defenses and drop their emotional attachments to any fixed point of view they came to hold during the Lewinsky scandal. If you don't have an open mind you won't enlarge your understanding of this historical event in our nation's history.Judge Posner serves the r. pragmatic, not partisan This book is not partisan as some reviewers have claimed. Itis pragmatic.It also seems strange to judge the book solely bythe highly debatable point of whether or not Posner violated the Canonof Judicial Ethics in writing it.Should Clinton have been impeached, and if impeached, convicted? Richard Posner says the question is unanswerable. So why read this book?This book shows how an outstanding mind thinks throug
(Among the best one-liners: "Alan Dershowitz criticizes Clinton, but largely for the blunders he committed in trying to conceal his affair and implicitly for not having retained Dershowitz as legal advisor.") An Affair of State is the smartest, most level-headed book written to date about what Posner calls "the whole Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr-impeachment business"; it is likely to retain that status for some time to come. While Posner focuses on the actual legal issues involved rather than attempt to make a case for Clinton's or any of his Republican adversaries' being evil incarnate, he does not treat the president with kid gloves. In An Affair of State, he turns his attention to the impeachment of President
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