If you turned on cable news in the summer of 1998, you were all but guaranteed to see the face of then 24-year-old Monica Lewinsky. Earlier that year, in January, news of her relationship with President Bill Clinton broke, and for the months following, Lewinsky endured a shame-spinning spectacle of puritanism, contempt, and blame—much of it hurled at her first by Ken Starr in a hotel room at the Ritz Carlton in Pentagon City, where she was quest…
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