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Ronald Reagan The Movie: And Other Episodes in Political Demonology

Ronald Reagan The Movie: And Other Episodes in Political Demonology

by Michael Rogin (Author)

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    Illustrated 1988

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Synopsis

The fear of the subversive has governed American politics, from the racial conflicts of the early republic to the Hollywood anti-Communism of Ronald Reagan. Political monsters - the Indian cannibal, the black rapist, the demon rum, the bomb-throwing anarchist, the many-tentacled Communist conspiracy, the agents of international terrorism - are familiar figures in the dream life that so often dominates American political consciousness. What are the meanings and sources of these demons? And why does the American political imagination conjure them up? Michael Rogin answers these questions by examining the American countersubversive tradition.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 420
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 15 Jul 1988
ISBN 10: 0520064690
ISBN 13: 9780520064690

Media Reviews
Rogin provides examples sufficient to convince the reader that policies engineered to control subversion have been of major importance and have been a constant feature of American politics. . . . [An] important book. --Ralph Braccio, The Christian Science Monitor
Author Bio
Michael P. Rogin is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Subversive Geneology: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville (California, 1985).