The Destruction Of Hillary Clinton

Author: Susan Bordo

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  • : $29.99 AUD
  • : 9781925603026
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  • : December 2016
  • : 234mm X 153mm
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Description

The result of the 2016 presidential election was widely thought to be a foregone conclusion: a historic victory for an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced and admired candidate against an opponent seen as not just unelectable but unfit for office. As we know, it didn't work out like that. So how did Hillary Clinton lose? How did she come to be seen as a tool of the establishment, a chronic liar and a talentless politician? In this masterful narrative of the 2016 campaign year, Susan Bordo unpacks the right-wing assault on Clinton and her reputation, the way she provoked the suspicion and indifference of a younger generation, and the unprecedented influence of the media. Urgent, insightful, and engrossing, The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an essential guide to understanding the most controversial presidential election in American history.

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* Author appearance on national Australian TV programs such as ABC TV Lateline and/or ABC TV News Breakfast * Extract to run in major Australian newspaper * Author interview on national radio programs e.g. RN Breakfast, Radio NZ Nine to Noon * Author interviews on web publications such as Guardian * Extensive review coverage in all major newspapers * Wide review coverage in general and current affairs publications e.g. Monthly, NZ Listener, Big Issue * Extensive online review coverage on publications such as Guardian and Conversation * Mentions in glossy women's magazines * Mentions on current affairs, feminist and female-focused and youth-focused websites such as Crikey, Daily Review, Daily Life, Mamamia, Junkee, Pedestrian and Broadly * Significant promotion including a giveaway of early reading copies at national bookseller conferences such as Leading Edge * Premium advertisements in bookseller newsletters and catalogues * Large-scale online display advertising campaign targeting feminists and political and news junkies on a range of premium current affairs and female-focused sites * Major promotions including targeted advertising through social media, and through Text's website and monthly newsletters to the trade and book lovers

Reviews

'One of the most incisive social critics working today-and one of the best writers, too. Whether she's dissecting Lolita, movie and book, or Marlon Brando, 50s icon and symbol of masculinity, she's never predictable and often profound.' -- Katha Pollitt 'To read Susan Bordo is to take a wild ride through the cultural images that form our daily lives, and to see them with a startling X-ray vision that reveals their blood and guts and bones, a vision that reveals us, finally, to ourselves.' -- Leslie Heywood 'With an almost chatty style, but also possessing a subtle power, her book transforms our habitual understanding of movies, advertisements, novels, and even trends and toys...Bordo's talent for reading culture presents us with the most valuable gift: a newly configured imagination.' Los Angeles Times on The Male Body

Author description

Dr Susan Bordo holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, where she is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies. She is an author of a number of seminal books on feminist theory, including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body, The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and Private and The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen.