An Affair of State (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
288
Utgivningsdatum
2000-11-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
Harvard University Press
Illustrationer
None
Dimensioner
234 x 155 x 19 mm
Vikt
386 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780674003910

An Affair of State

The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton

Häftad,  Engelska, 2000-11-01
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President Bill Clintons 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. 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. Posner clarifies the issues and eliminates misunderstandings concerning facts and the law that were relevant to the investigation by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and to the impeachment proceeding itself. He explains the legal definitions of obstruction of justice and perjury, which even many lawyers are unfamiliar with. 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. He compares and contrasts the Clinton affair with Watergate, IranContra, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, exploring the subtle relationship between public and private morality. 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. This book, reflecting the breadth of Posners experience and expertise, will be the essential foundation for anyone who wants to understand President Clintons impeachment ordeal.
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[Posners] analysis of the political crisis surrounding disclosure of President Clintons affair with Monica Lewinsky is the most trenchant and illuminating yet. His precision about constitutional law and about definitions of perjury, subornation of it and obstruction of justice gives his narrative the tension of a thriller. And his judgments about key playersClinton, Kenneth Starr, Congressional leaders, intellectual and academic defenders of the president, all the lawyers involved, the Supreme Court (for letting the Paula Jones lawsuit proceed with Clinton in office)are scathing, unsparing, elegant and witty. * New York Times Book Review * Posner shows that, despite its lurid and shameful origins, the [ClintonLewinsky] episode raised questions of law and morality that are profoundly important to the direction of the country and to our sense of the American political order. His analysis transforms the impeachment into an event of abiding significance. Mr. Posner works with unusual care through each of the moral and legal questions of the impeachment process. He considers all sides and possible interpretations of each event. But he does not hesitate to hand down strong judgments. -- George L. Priest * Wall Street Journal * We fortunately have a distinguished jurists opinion in An Affair of State which amounts to a retrial of the president with Posner on the bench. One could scarcely imagine a more fitting judge [Posner] is possessed of one of the most synoptic and probing intellects in the country, or the world. That he does not flinch from raining scorn on the Supreme Court and even on the chief justice (to whom Posner is nominally an underling) suggests the sharpness of mind, independence of spirit and biting wit that make his book an intellectual feast. At last, something good has come of the ClintonLewinskyJonesStarr affair. -- Jonathan Raugh * Washington Post * A bravura performance by United States Circuit Court Judge Richard A. Posner. He deftly examines the endless constitutional, political and social angles of President William Jefferson Clintons impeachment ordeal [An Affair of State is a] first-rate dissection of Mr. Clintons impeachment drama flush with long-headed prudential wisdom and insights. -- Bruce Fein * Washington Times * In so many ways, [Posner] is a perfect man for the task [of analyzing the ClintonLewinsky affair], and this book doesnt disappoint His most valuable contribution is legal. In a way only good judges can do, he manages both to portray the ambiguity of constitutional lawand few areas are as ambiguous as the constitutional criteria for impeachmentand yet not shy away from judgement about what actually happened and what to make of it Posner deftly takes us through [the] constitutional and political mazes[and] shows that there actually is a final answer to the question of what perjury and obstruction of justice are, and at least some large common ground as to what might be the constitutional grounds for impeachment. -- Andrew Sullivan * New York Times Book Review * Of [the ClintonLewinsky] analyses, the most insightful is An Affair of State. -- David Kusnet * Baltimore Sun * Posners great asset is his intellectual honesty. He pierces the gaseous clouds of Clintons defense to make compelling arguments that the president committed perjury and obstructed justice. He absolves Starr of obsessive prurience and vindicates the medias reporting of the case. He ridicules the Senates performance, as well as the chief justices robes. But Posner also concludes that the office of independent counsel has died a well-deserved death, that the Supreme Court blew the Paula Jones case, and that Starr got carried away by prosecutorial excess. He skewers the doomsayers of the moralistic Right for wringing their hands over what, to Posner, is still a vibrant republic. -- John Aloysius Farrell * Boston Globe * An Affair of State is an impressi

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Richard A. Posner retired as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2017. He was previously a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.