This Is Not a President : Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary / Diane Rubenstein.
2008
JK516 .R83 2008
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Title
This Is Not a President : Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary / Diane Rubenstein.
Author
Rubenstein, Diane, author.
ISBN
9780814777312
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource : 8 black and white illustrations
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814777312.001.0001 doi
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JK516 .R83 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.920922
Summary
Read The Chronicle of Higher Ed Author InterviewIn This Is Not a President, Diane Rubenstein looks at the postmodern presidency - from Reagan and George H. W. Bush, through the current administration, and including Hillary. Focusing on those seemingly inexplicable gaps or blind spots in recent American presidential politics, Rubenstein interrogates symptomatic moments in political rhetoric, popular culture, and presidential behavior to elucidate profound and disturbing changes in the American presidency and the way it embodies a national imaginary.In a series of essays written in real time over the past four presidential administrations, Rubenstein traces the vernacular use of the American presidency (as currency, as grist for popular biography, as fictional TV material) to explore the ways in which the American presidency functions as a "transitional object" that allows the American citizen to meet or discover the president while going about her everyday life. The book argues that it is French theory - primarily Lacanian psychoanalysis and the radical semiotic theories of Jean Baudrillard - that best accounts for American political life today. Through episodes as diverse as Iran Contra, George H. W. Bush vomiting in Japan, the 1992 Republican convention, the failed nomination of Lani Guinier, and the Iraq War, This Is Not a President brilliantly situates our collective investment in American political culture.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Organizational Note
2 The Mirror of Reproduction
3 Oliver North and the Lying Nose
4 This Is Not a President
5 Bush, the Man Who Sununu Too Much
6 "Chicks with Dicks"
7 "Honey, I Shrunk the President"
8 "Father, Can't You See I'm Bombing?"
9 Hillary Regained
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Organizational Note
2 The Mirror of Reproduction
3 Oliver North and the Lying Nose
4 This Is Not a President
5 Bush, the Man Who Sununu Too Much
6 "Chicks with Dicks"
7 "Honey, I Shrunk the President"
8 "Father, Can't You See I'm Bombing?"
9 Hillary Regained
Notes
Index
About the Author