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Donald Trump in the Frontier Mythology

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the frontier myth.


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Preface


  1. "The toughest guy in the office"
  2. The tough guy theme in politics
    Masculine politics and the origin of the tough

  3. Theodore Roosevelt: the becoming of the frontier and the arrival of the hero
  4. Performative frontier: staging the myth
    The enduring contradiction of myth
    The land and the man
    The man and the towners
    The girl: gendered opposition

  5. Ronald Reagan: extension of the frontier and inversion of the hero
  6. Myth gains primacy
    The exhauster of myth

  7. Donald Trump: recovered meanings of the frontier and resurgence of the hero
  8. Back to the beginning
    New scapes: cowboy goes metropolitan
    Myth continued

  9. Vladimir Putin: "stolen" meanings of the frontier and a supplementing hero
  10. Here comes the villain
    "Is he one of us?"
Concluding thoughts


About the author










Olena Leipnik is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Sam Houston State University, USA.


Summary

This book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the frontier myth.

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