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This is not a president : sense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary
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This is not a president : sense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary / Diane Rubenstein.
ISBN
9780814776025 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814776027 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814776032 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814776035 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
New York : New York University Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xii, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 25, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-291) and index.
Contents
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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