Ronald Reagan The Movie: And Other Episodes in Political Demonology

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Ronald Reagan, the Movie This page intentionally left blank Ronald Reagan, the Movie and Other Episodes in Political Demonology Michael Paul Rogin UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAPRESS Berkeley • Los Angeles • London This book is a print-on-demand volume. It is manufactured using toner in place of ink. Type and images may be less sharp than the same material seen in traditionally printed University of California Press editions. The photographs in this volume are reproduced courtesy of Paul Conrad and the Los Angeles Times; Movie Star News; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pacific Film Archive, UniversityArt Museum, University of California, Berkeley;Stanislav Rembski; Ben Weaver and Camera 5. "The King's Two Bodies: Lincoln, Wilson, Nixon, and PresidentialSelf-Sacrifice," in J. David Greenstone, ed., Public Values and Private Power in American Politics (Chicago, 1982), © Universityof Chicago, reprinted by permission. "Liberal Society and the Indian Question," Politics and Society 1 (May 1971), © Geron-X, Inc., reprinted by permission. "Nature as Politicsand Nature as Romance in America," Political Theory 5 (February 1977), © Sage Publications, reprinted by permission. "Nonpartisanship and the Group Interest," in PhilipGreen and Sanford Levinson, eds., Power and Community (New York, 1970), © Pantheon Books, Random House, reprinted by permission. Earlier versions of"'Ronald Reagan: the Movie" appeared in democracy 1 (April and October 1981), © The Common Good Foundation; of "Political Repression in the United States," in Jack P.Greene, ed., Encyclopedia of American Political History (New York, 1984), © Charles Scribner's Sons; of "Kiss Me Deadly: Communism, Motherhood, and Cold War Movies" and " 'The Sword Became a FlashingVision': D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation," in Representations 6 (Spring 1984) and 9 (Winter 1985), © The Regents of the Universityof California.All used with permission. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England©1987 by The Regents of the University of California First Paperback Printing 1988 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rogin, Michael Paul. Ronald Reagan, the movie. Includes index. 1.United States—Politics and government— Miscellanea. 2. Conspiracies—United States—History— Miscellanea. I.Title. E183.R64 1987 320.973 86-19229 ISBN 0-520-06469-0 (alk. paper) Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. © for Isabelle and Madeleine This page intentionally left blank ...