ISBN:
9780226894119
,
0226894118
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 404 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Secrets, sex, and spectacle
DDC:
302.24
Keywords:
Scandals Japan
;
Law Japan
;
Scandals United States
;
Law United States
;
Scandals
;
Law
;
Scandals
;
Law
;
Law
;
Scandals
;
Scandals
;
Law
;
Law
;
Manners and customs
;
Scandals
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Communication Studies
;
Japan Social life and customs
;
United States Social life and customs
;
Japan
;
United States
;
Japan Social life and customs
;
United States Social life and customs
;
Japan Social life and customs
;
United States Social life and customs
;
United States
;
Japan
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A leader of a global superpower is betrayed by his mistress, who makes public the sordid details of their secret affair. His wife stands by as he denies the charges. Debates over definitions of moral leadership ensue. Sound familiar? If you guessed Clinton and Lewinsky, try again. This incident involved former Japanese prime minister Sosuke Uno and a geisha. In Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle, Mark D. West organizes the seemingly random worlds of Japanese and American scandal?from corporate fraud to baseball cheaters, political corruption to celebrity sexcapades?to explore well-ingrained similarit
Description / Table of Contents:
PlayersPrivacy and honor -- Groups -- Individuals -- Sex -- Apology.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
URL:
http://chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226894119.001.0001/upso-9780226894089
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