Using a variety of cases from history and today's life, the book examines character attackers targeting the private lives, behavior, values, and identity of their victims. Numerous historical examples show that character assassination has always been a very effective weapon to win political battles or settle personal scores. Character assassination is the deliberate destruction of an individual's reputation. Most notable victims of character assassination are political and religious leaders, officials, celebrities, writers, scientists, athletes, and other public figures. 'Character assassins' target the private lives, behavior, values, and identities of their victims. The editors and contributors to this volume have gathered cases and insights from the fields of history, political science, and psychology to track many common characteristics of character assassination, as well as to describe their unique features over different times and places. The authors show that character assassination is a timeless, cross-cultural phenomenon that reveals itself in a variety of forms and methods typical for every cultural, political, and technological epoch

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The Footprints of Michael the Archangel The Formation and Diffusion of a Saintly Cult, c. 300-c. 800

Icks, Martijn; Shiraev, Eric

Author

Palgrave Macmillan Limited

Macmillan Education UK

Springer Nature

Red Globe Press

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Springer Nature, New York, 2014

First edition, New York, 2014

Basingstoke, 2014

2, 20140717

sm34780391

2015-02-07