Secrets, sex, and spectacle : the rules of scandal in Japan and the United States / Mark D. West.

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West, Mark D, 1968-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 404 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226894119
0226894118
1281966770
9781281966773
9786611966775
6611966773

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Secrets, sex, and spectacle.DDC classification:

302.2/4 22

LOC classification:

DS821 .W36 2006eb

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Contents:

Players -- Privacy and honor -- Groups -- Individuals -- Sex -- Apology.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Players -- Privacy and honor -- Groups -- Individuals -- Sex -- Apology.

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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.

English.

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