This is not a president [electronic resource] : sense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary / Diane Rubenstein.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2008Description: xii, 299 p. : illSubject(s): Presidents -- United States | Political culture -- United States | Popular culture -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.920922 LOC classification: JK516 | .R83 2008Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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.
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