The performance of politics : Obama's victory and the democratic struggle for power / Jeffrey C. Alexander
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 2012, c2010
Descript
xiv, 364 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Power, performance, and representation -- Civil sphere and public drama -- Becoming a collective representation -- Spirit of the ground game -- Heroes, binaries, and boundaries -- Imagining heroes -- Working the binaries -- Walking the boundaries -- Victory and defeat -- Celebrity metaphor -- Palin effect -- Financial crisis
SUBJECT
Obama
Barack
1961-
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008
Performance art -- Political aspects -- United States
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009