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This is Not a President
Diane Rubenstein
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Description for This is Not a President
Paperback. Looks at the postmodern presidency - from Reagan and George H W Bush, through the administration, and including Hillary. The author 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. Num Pages: 299 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
299
Condition
New
Number of Pages
299
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814776032
SKU
V9780814776032
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About Diane Rubenstein
Diane Rubenstein is Professor of Government and American Studies at Cornell University, and the author of What’s Left?: The Ecole Normale Superieure and the Right.
Reviews for This is Not a President
In a series of bravura performances, Rubenstein reads presidents through Baudrillard and Lacan, providing at once a narrative of the administrations and . . . the field's development over the past two decades.
American Quarterly
Rubenstein is without rival in her brilliant use of psychoanalytic theory for political science. No one since Michael Rogin has written so incisively ... Read more
American Quarterly
Rubenstein is without rival in her brilliant use of psychoanalytic theory for political science. No one since Michael Rogin has written so incisively ... Read more