The destruction of Hillary Clinton
By: Susan Bordo
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781612196633
Subjects: Politics and government; Political activity; Presidents; Sexism in political culture; Presidential candidates; Public opinion; Election; Mass media; Women presidential candidates; History; Right and left (Political science); Women
Description: "A play-by-play of the political forces (both right and left) and media culture that vilified Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign, from cultural critic and feminist scholar Susan Bordo. The Destruction of Hillary Clintonis an answer to the question we've all been asking: How did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, and admired candidate--whose victory would have been as historic as Barack Obama's--come to be seen as a tool of the establishment, a chronic liar, and a talentless politician? In this masterful narrative of the 2016 campaign year, Susan Bordo unpacks the right-wing assault on Clinton and her reputation, the way the left provoked the suspicion and indifference of a younger generation, and the unprecedented influence of the media. Urgent, insightful, and engrossing,The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an essential guide to understanding the most controversial presidential election in American history"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Timeline of Key Events; title: 1. Dilemmas of the Female Politician; title: 2. The "Woman Card" Moves to the Bottom of the Deck; title: 3. Bernie Sanders and the "Millennials"; title: 4. "Untrustworthy Hillary"; title: 5. Damned Emails; title: 6. A Tale of Two Conventions, and One Hot Mic; title: 7. Coup d'Etat; title: Epilogue.