{"product_id":"the-art-of-the-public-susan-wise-bauer-9780691138107","title":"The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhether you are a politician caught carrying on with an intern or a minister photographed with a prostitute, discovery does not necessarily spell the end of your public career. Admit your sins carefully, using the essential elements of an evangelical confession identified by Susan Wise Bauer in \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the Public Grovel\u003c\/i\u003e, and you, like Bill Clinton, just might survive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this fascinating and important history of public confession in modern America, Bauer explains why and how a type of confession that first arose among nineteenth-century evangelicals has today become the required form for any successful public admission of wrongdoing--even when the wrongdoer has no connection with evangelicalism and the context is thoroughly secular. She shows how Protestant revivalism, group psychotherapy, and the advent of talk TV combined to turn evangelical-style confession into a mainstream secular rite. Those who master the form--Bill Clinton, Jimmy Swaggart, David Vitter, and Ted Haggard--have a chance of surviving and even thriving, while those who don't--Ted Kennedy, Jim Bakker, Cardinal Bernard Law, Mark Foley, and Eliot Spitzer--will never really recover. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Revealing the rhetoric, theology, and history that lie behind every successful public plea for forgiveness, \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the Public Grovel\u003c\/i\u003e will interest anyone who has ever wondered why Clinton is still popular while Bakker fell out of public view, Ted Kennedy never got to be president, and Law moved to Rome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Wise Bauer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691138109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691138107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/10\/2008 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2008 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/13\/2009 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2009","brand":"Susan Wise Bauer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46110639816959,"sku":"9780691138107","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6a9f35ef-5328-4e47-be9e-dc24295b462c.jpg?v=1725469354","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-art-of-the-public-susan-wise-bauer-9780691138107","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}