Being There in the Age of Trump

by Barbara Tepa Lupack

Jerzy Kosinski's Being There (published in 1970 and adapted to film in 1979) was prescient in its vision of a simple man without discernible talent or political experience whose knowledge of the world comes almost exclusively from television. Yet his very shallowness establishes him as a TV celebrity and propels him to the pinnacle of American government. Both an incisive satire and a clarion call to resist the collectivizing force of the media that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793607184
• ISBN13: 9781793607188
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"