Scorpion Tongues New and Updated Edition
Gossip, Celebrity, and American Politics
On Sale: 01/30/2007
Scorpion Tongues New and Updated Edition
Gossip, Celebrity, and American Politics
On Sale: 01/30/2007
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About the Book
From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, Scorpion Tongues is a popular history of gossip in American politics. Complete with wickedly delightful anecdotes of major and minor politicians and entertainers over the last 200 years, Gail Collins examines the evolving relationship between politicians and the press and the blurring of the lines between politicians and celebrities. Supported by extensive research and written with an entertaining flair, she speculates on how gossip reflects the current moral compass of the time, noting how a rumor, like an unpredictable summer tornado, can flatten one reputation while a similar story passes over another with hardly a rustle. "Hilariously readable" (The Economist), Scorpion Tongues offers sinful scandals and mild hearsay for every taste.
Product Details
- ISBN: 9780061139628
- ISBN 10: 0061139629
- Imprint: Harper Perennial
- On Sale: 01/30/2007
- Pages: 384
- List Price:18.50 CAD
- BISAC1 : HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- BISAC2 : HISTORY / United States / 21st Century
- BISAC3 : SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
- BISAC4 : HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- BISAC5 : HISTORY / Social History
- BISAC6 : SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- BISAC7 : SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
- BISAC8 : SCIENCE / History
- BISAC9 : SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
- BISAC10 : SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
- BISAC11 : HISTORY / United States / General
