This Is Not a President

Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary

Автор: Diane Rubenstein

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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In "This Is Not a President", Diane Rubenstein looks at the postmodern presidency - from Reagan and...

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Автор

Diane Rubenstein

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2008

страници

299

EAN

9780814776032

ISBN

0814776035

Enbook ID

04932409

Издател

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Теглоt

422

Размери

153 x 228 x 19

Пълно описание

In "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 it 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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