This is not a president sense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary /

Rubenstein, Diane, 1953-

This is not a president sense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary / [electronic resource] : Diane Rubenstein. - New York : New York University Press, c2008. - xii, 299 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-291) and index.

Introduction: my own private presidents -- Organizational note -- The mirror of reproduction: Baudrillard and Reagan's America -- Oliver North and the lying nose -- This is not a president: Baudrillard, Bush, and enchanted simulation -- Bush, the man who Sununu too much: male trouble and presidential subjectivity -- "Chicks with dicks": transgendering the presidency -- "Honey, I shrunk the president": psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and the Clinton presidency -- "Father, can't you see I'm bombing?" A Bush family romance -- Hillary regained -- Notes -- Index -- About the author.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Presidents--United States.
Political culture--United States.
Popular culture--United States.


Electronic books.

JK516 / .R83 2008

973.920922