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Crocodile tears on TV?

With a mugshot of a remorseful-looking Bill Clinton against the backdrop of the American flag staring out from the cover, a first glance at this book certainly raises a degree of curiosity. A closer look at the subtitle — ‘sexual sin and public confession in America’ — serves only to reinforce it.

Mark Johnston

THE ART OF THE PUBLIC GROVEL
By Susan Wise Bauer
Princeton University Press. 338 pages. £15.95
ISBN 978-0-691-13810-7