CELEBRITY-IN-CHIEF: HOW SHOW Business Took Over the White House

    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.
作者简介
Alan Schroeder，is an associate professor in the school of journalism at northeasten university.a theree-time emmy-award-winning television producer and a frequent media commentator,he is the author of presdetial debates:40 yeays of higb-risk tv.he lives in cambridge,massachusetts.

lntroduction:the showbizpresidency
1 gilt by association:how entertainers are good for presidents
2 attack of the cat woman:how entertainers are bad for presidents
3 hope springe eternal:how presidents ate good for entertainers
4 glad to be unhappy:how presidents ard bad for entertainers
5 running time:entertainers on the campaign trail
6 america s toughest gig:performing for the president
7 groupies,aficionados,and philistines:presidents as fans
8 “happy birthday,mr.president“：entertainers as friends and lovers
9 secrets of the stars:entertainets as professional associates
10 leading ladies,supporting cast:first families in the showbiz presidency
11 is everybody happy?preidents as entertainers
12 “l m gerald ford,and you re not”：presidents as entetainment
conclusion:the common vocabulary of presidents and entertainers
notes
selected bibliograpby
acknowledgments
index