Michael Rogin
Ronald Reagan The Movie
And Other Episodes in Political Demonology
$26.95, £15.95 paperback
978-0-520-06469-0
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480 pages,
July 1988, Available worldwide
Categories: History; Politics; Popular Culture; United States History
July 1988, Available worldwide
Categories: History; Politics; Popular Culture; United States History
"One of the best books on American politics published in the last decade."—Chicago Law Review
"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
"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
"Fresh, provocative, and full of vitality, this is a first-rate contribution to the study of political culture. It should be read not only by political scientists, political theorists, and sociologists, but also by students of American studies and literature."—Sheldon Wolin, Princeton University
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? Why does the American political imagination conjure them up? Michael Rogin answers these questions by examining the American countersubversive tradition.
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