Michael P. Rogin is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Subversive Geneology: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville (California, 1985).

• List of Illustrations Preface 1. Ronald Reagan, the Movie 2. Political Repression in the United States 3. The King's Two Bodies: Lincoln, Wilson,Nixon, and Presidential Self-Sacrifice 4. Nonpartisanship and the Group Interest 5. Liberal Society and the Indian Question 6. Nature as Politics and Nature as Romance inAmerica 7. "The Sword Became a Flashing Vision": D. W.Griffith's The Birth of a Nation 8. Kiss Me Deadly: Communism, Motherhood,and Cold War Movies 9. American Political Demonology: ARetrospective Notes Index

Michael P. Rogin is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Subversive Geneology: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville (California, 1985).

• List of Illustrations Preface 1. Ronald Reagan, the Movie 2. Political Repression in the United States 3. The King's Two Bodies: Lincoln, Wilson,Nixon, and Presidential Self-Sacrifice 4. Nonpartisanship and the Group Interest 5. Liberal Society and the Indian Question 6. Nature as Politics and Nature as Romance inAmerica 7. "The Sword Became a Flashing Vision": D. W.Griffith's The Birth of a Nation 8. Kiss Me Deadly: Communism, Motherhood,and Cold War Movies 9. American Political Demonology: ARetrospective Notes Index