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What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God is a collection
of essays on the religious communication of members of the
Democratic Party, past and present-in office, while campaigning,
and in their public and private writing. While many books on the
market address issues at the intersection of church and state, none
to date have focused exclusively on Democrats as important
participants in the dialogue about religion and politics.
From the moment Captain America punched Hitler in the jaw, comic
books have always been political, and whether it is Marvel's
chairman Ike Perlmutter making a campaign contribution to Donald
Trump in 2016 or Marvel's character Howard the Duck running for
president during America's bicentennial in 1976, the politics of
comics have overlapped with the politics of campaigns and
governance. Pop culture opens avenues for people to declare their
participation in a collective project and helps them to shape their
understandings of civic responsibility, leadership, communal
history, and present concerns. Politics in the Gutters: American
Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media opens with an
examination of campaign comic books used by the likes of Herbert
Hoover and Harry S. Truman, follows the rise of political
counterculture comix of the 1960s, and continues on to the graphic
novel version of the 9/11 Report and the cottage industry of Sarah
Palin comics. It ends with a consideration of comparisons to Donald
Trump as a supervillain and a look at comics connections to the
pandemic and protests that marked the 2020 election year. More than
just escapist entertainment, comics offer a popular yet complicated
vision of the American political tableau. Politics in the Gutters
considers the political myths, moments, and mimeses, in comic
books-from nonfiction to science fiction, superhero to
supernatural, serious to satirical, golden age to present day-to
consider how they represent, re-present, underpin, and/or undermine
ideas and ideals about American electoral politics.
From the moment Captain America punched Hitler in the jaw, comic
books have always been political, and whether it is Marvel's
chairman Ike Perlmutter making a campaign contribution to Donald
Trump in 2016 or Marvel's character Howard the Duck running for
president during America's bicentennial in 1976, the politics of
comics have overlapped with the politics of campaigns and
governance. Pop culture opens avenues for people to declare their
participation in a collective project and helps them to shape their
understandings of civic responsibility, leadership, communal
history, and present concerns. Politics in the Gutters: American
Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media opens with an
examination of campaign comic books used by the likes of Herbert
Hoover and Harry S. Truman, follows the rise of political
counterculture comix of the 1960s, and continues on to the graphic
novel version of the 9/11 Report and the cottage industry of Sarah
Palin comics. It ends with a consideration of comparisons to Donald
Trump as a supervillain and a look at comics connections to the
pandemic and protests that marked the 2020 election year. More than
just escapist entertainment, comics offer a popular yet complicated
vision of the American political tableau. Politics in the Gutters
considers the political myths, moments, and mimeses, in comic
books-from nonfiction to science fiction, superhero to
supernatural, serious to satirical, golden age to present day-to
consider how they represent, re-present, underpin, and/or undermine
ideas and ideals about American electoral politics.
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God is a collection
of essays on the religious communication of members of the
Democratic Party, past and present-in office, while campaigning,
and in their public and private writing. While many books on the
market address issues at the intersection of church and state, none
to date have focused exclusively on Democrats as important
participants in the dialogue about religion and politics.
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