Bennett dismantles Clinton's defenses, brick by evasive brick, and analyzes the meaning of the Clinton scandals: why they mattered, what the public reaction to them meant, and the social and political damage they inflicted on America.

The Death of Outrage exposes the fallacious and demeaning logic that argues our economic well-being is the only important measure of presidential performance; torpedoes the deep but wholly unexamined respect for European sophistication about "private matters"; and explains why the president's troubles were not the result of a "vast, right-wing conspiracy," but were the result of his own doings. The Death of Outrage shows

• How the former president's actions, far from being irrelevant to the conduct of his affairs, severely restricted his ability to govern.
• The unprecedented recklessness of the Clinton administration in everything from influence peddling to sexual misconduct to alarming tactics of intimidation.
• How Clinton and his defenders exploited the natural tolerance of the American people -- and made a mockery of the rule of law.
• Why the Clinton scandals -- from the Travel Office, to Filegate, to the Rose Law Firm billing records, to the Lewinsky Affair -- were neither a creation of the tabloid press, nor independent of one another.

Bill Bennett explains why presidential character matters; why allegations of sexual misconduct need to be taken seriously; why reasoned judgment is the mark of a healthy democracy; and why the ends don't justify the means.

Explosive and hard-hitting, powerful in its logic, carefully reasoned in its conclusions...