LEADER 04566nam 2200937 a 450 001 9910824435003321 005 20230721032154.0 010 $a0-8147-7731-7 010 $a0-8147-7620-5 024 7 $a10.18574/nyu/9780814777312 035 $a(CKB)1000000000484999 035 $a(OCoLC)213815755 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10300403 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000258863 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11224020 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258863 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10272594 035 $a(PQKB)10357450 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865900 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10410 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865900 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10300403 035 $a(OCoLC)780425941 035 $a(DE-B1597)547830 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814777312 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000484999 100 $a20070719d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThis is not a president$b[electronic resource] $esense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary /$fDiane Rubenstein 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8147-7602-7 311 $a0-8147-7603-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-291) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aRead 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. 606 $aPresidents$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States 610 $a1992. 610 $aAmerican. 610 $aBush. 610 $aContra. 610 $aGuinier. 610 $aIran. 610 $aIraq. 610 $aJapan. 610 $aLani. 610 $aPresident. 610 $aRepublican. 610 $aThis. 610 $aThrough. 610 $aWar. 610 $acollective. 610 $aconvention. 610 $aculture. 610 $adiverse. 610 $aepisodes. 610 $afailed. 610 $ainvestment. 610 $anomination. 610 $apolitical. 610 $asituates. 610 $avomiting. 615 0$aPresidents 615 0$aPolitical culture 615 0$aPopular culture 676 $a973.920922 700 $aRubenstein$b Diane$f1953-$01611432 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824435003321 996 $aThis is not a president$93939703 997 $aUNINA