... (www.dissentmagazine.or/archive/su99/wilentz.html). 250 Moral capital and the American presidency been frequently disappointed and dismayed and some of the disappoint- ments had gone very deep, to the heart of the political system, to the heart ... of their leaders provided they receive enough from them. If so, then what might on the surface have seemed the nadir of the American presidency in the twentieth century, the seedy, squalid, rather ... America’s moral crisis. With the collapse of the communist governments of Eastern Europe and the fragmentation of the Soviet Union itself, the old enemy simply disappeared, and with it the con- solidating...