This is not a president
Subtitle: sense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary
By: Diane Rubenstein
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780814776025; 9780814776032
Subjects: Presidents -- United States; Political culture -- United States; Popular culture -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-291) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: my own private presidents; title: Organizational note; title: The mirror of reproduction: Baudrillard and Reagan's America; title: Oliver North and the lying nose; title: This is not a president: Baudrillard, Bush, and enchanted simulation; title: Bush, the man who Sununu too much: male trouble and presidential subjectivity; title: "Chicks with dicks": transgendering the presidency; title: "Honey, I shrunk the president": psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and the Clinton presidency; title: "Father, can't you see I'm bombing?": a Bush family romance; title: Hillary regained; title: Notes; title: Index; title: About the author