A Culture of Confidence: Politics, Performance, and the Idea of America

by Richard Nelson

Compelled by the ubiquitous power of mass entertainment, politics has adopted theatrical language and the rhetoric of performance as the strategy for winning public favor. We have come to expect the politicians we elect to be performers. Now, more than at any other time in American history, we conceive the world of politics to be a world of theatre in which every politician's campaign must sell us something.

In this persuasive study of culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604735759
• ISBN13: 9781604735758
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"