The Partly Cloudy Presidency

Abstract

Written against the backdrop of jingoistic patriotism, the “War on Terror” marketing slogan, and the draconian neoconservative agenda currently dominating American cultural politics, the author seeks to police the crisis of these wayward times through a series of narrative collages that intersect with and comment on our current historical conjuncture. Deploying quotes from and engaging in dialogue with voices from popular culture as a means of critiquing the false hall of mirrors that has become the Bush administration’s prevailing model of “truth” in post-9/11 America, the author’s words stand as a resounding alternative to the unquestioning voices of appeasement currently dominating mainstream corporate media.

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