Donald Trump in the Frontier Mythology

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

Autorentext

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

Inhalt

Preface

1. "The toughest guy in the office" ** The tough guy theme in politics

   Masculine politics and the origin of the tough

2. Theodore Roosevelt: the becoming of the frontier and the arrival of the hero ** Performative frontier: staging the myth

   The enduring contradiction of myth

   The land and the man

   The man and the towners

   The girl: gendered opposition

3. Ronald Reagan: extension of the frontier and inversion of the hero ** Myth gains primacy

   The exhauster of myth

4. Donald Trump: recovered meanings of the frontier and resurgence of the hero ** Back to the beginning

   New scapes: cowboy goes metropolitan

   Myth continued

5. Vladimir Putin: "stolen" meanings of the frontier and a supplementing hero ** Here comes the villain

   "Is he one of us?"

   Concluding thoughts