The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 26th, 2001
With Condit, `confessions' aren't what they used to be Forget Augustine; lawmaker can't even meet Clinton standard By REED JOHNSON Los Angeles Times Sunday, August 26, 2001 When St. Augustine sat down to write his "Confessions" near the end of the fourth century, he unwittingly created a bestselling formula for future sinners to follow. The saint's intimate, anguished admissions of bad behavior -- from trashing a neighbor's pear tree to cohabiting with a concubine -- set the benchmark for such later transgressors as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Leo Tolstoy. Sixteen centuries later, when Re...
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