![]() Michael Weinstein was all that one could wish for in a senior colleague his Nietzschean daring inspired so many aspects of this project. I remain grateful for their intellectual friendship and pedagogic example. I had two superb initiators into the field’s core with my co-teachers, Siobhan Somerville and Patrick O’Donnell. While at Purdue I began an institutional involvement with the graduate program in American Studies, where I benefited from Susan Curtis’s always deft and gracious leadership. ![]() Browning placed the considerable resources of the C-SPAN archives at my disposal. Colleagues such as Berenice Carroll (in Women’s Studies) and Janice Lauer and the late Jim Berlin (in Rhetoric) invited me to present early versions of chapters in their departmental colloquia series. A fellowship from the Center for the Humanistic Studies provided a semester’s leave from teaching. A grant from the Purdue Alumni Research Fund enabled me to visit both Disneyland and two southern Californian presidential libraries. It was at Purdue University that the occasional essays on Baudrillard, Reagan, and Bush began the evolution into a book. Siba Grovogui, who also was a participant in Murray Edelman’s seminar, has remained a beacon of intellectual and professional integrity. I am grateful to the others present at this event: Jean Baudrillard, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, and Tom Dumm, who (along with Bill Connolly) provided editorial assistance in revising that paper. Other colleagues, such as Chip Stearns and Bill Chaloupka, organized the first North American Baudrillard conference, in Missoula, Montana, in 1989, where I presented an earlier version of chapter 2 of this volume. Some of these undergraduate students, Jim Knipfel and Tom Vanderbilt, have inspired me with their own book-length contributions to cultural theory and memory. Students in my “Reification, Semiotics, and Everyday Life” course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as participants in Murray Edelman’s 1987 NEH summer seminar, gave me early feedback. It was my former Yale student Tom Levin who made me a gift of two slim, black semiotexte volumes and our mutual comrade Tom Keenan who discussed Baudrillard and Reagan with me in the mid- to late 1980s. This book began (as I recount in the introduction) as a thought and teaching experiment. It is thanks to the support and generosity of many individuals and institutions that this book was finally brought to completion. ![]() This Is Not a President addresses those endeavors that Freud designated as interminable: government, psychoanalysis, and (obliquely) pedagogy. “Father, Can’t You See I’m Bombing?” A Bush Family Romance “Honey, I Shrunk the President”: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and the Clinton Presidency ![]() “Chicks with Dicks”: Transgendering the Presidency This Is Not a President: Baudrillard, Bush, and Enchanted Simulationīush, the Man Who Sununu Too Much: Male Trouble and Presidential Subjectivity The Mirror of Reproduction: Baudrillard and Reagan’s America ![]() In memory of my parents, Natalie and Gilbert Rubenstein. Manufactured in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 p 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 JK516.R83 2007 973.920922-dc22 2007029770 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Includes bibliographical references and index. New york university press New York and London © 2008 by New York University All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rubenstein, Diane, 1953– This is not a president : sense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary / Diane Rubenstein. This Is Not a President Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political ImaginaryĪ NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London ![]()
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