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SCHWARZENEGGER SYNDROME: Politics and Celebriity in the Age of Contempt

SCHWARZENEGGER SYNDROME: Politics and Celebriity in the Age of Contempt Hardcover - 2005

by Gary Indiana

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How did a onetime bodybuilding champion and gay pinup, with no political experience and a string of mediocre action movies to his name, come to take over the world's fifth-largest economy? This witty and biting travelogue through the intersection of celebrity culture with American political life lays bare the dark implications of Schwarzenegger's rise to power in the Golden State.

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New York: The New Press, 2005. Hardcover. As New. 140p. A new hardcover book and dustjacket. Clean and tight. A critical analysis of Schwarzenegger's rise to power as Governer of California.
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  • Title SCHWARZENEGGER SYNDROME: Politics and Celebriity in the Age of Contempt
  • Author Gary Indiana
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 140
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The New Press, New York
  • Date 2005
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 204157
  • ISBN 9781565849518 / 1565849515
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.74 x 5.62 x 0.72 in (19.66 x 14.27 x 1.83 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, Political culture - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005041475
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.209

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  • Ingram Advance, 07/01/2005, Page 78

About the author

Gary Indiana, whose essays have appeared in the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and the London Review of Books, is the author of six novels and several nonfiction books. He lives in New York City and Los Angeles.