作者	Alan Schroeder
出版社	Westview Press
出版时间	2004-02-01

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U.S. PRESIDENTS AND HOLLYWOOD have had a mutual admiration society that extends far back into history. In Cdebrity-in-Chief, journalist Alan Schroeder contends that each camp has influenced the other--particularly over the past century--creating a president who no longer stands apart upon a remote civic pedestal, isolated from Hollywood and popular culture. Instead, the powerful forces of the American celebrity circus drag him into the tent and ask him to put on a show. The job of president has always been politically demanding, but now there is another requirement: to exude star quality. In the parlance of Hollywood, he must “fill the frame.” Drawing upon a wealth of fascinating anecdotes about some of the most celebrated individuals in American history, Schroeder shows how successive presidents since Woodrow Wilson have put on a show with mixed results. Whether it was Bill Clinton playing sax on TV talk shows or George W. Bush's Top Gun stunt aboard an aircraft carrier, Celebrity-in-Chief entertainingly convinces us that the result is a wholesale &mystification of the office--and that this marriage of pop culture and the presidency will continue to fascinate and endure.