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