This is not a president [[electronic resource] ] : sense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary / / Diane Rubenstein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452242603321
• Autore: Rubenstein Diane <1953->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-8147-7731-7; 0-8147-7620-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.920922
• Soggetti: Presidents - United States; Political culture - United States; Popular culture - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-291) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.