Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 "The toughest guy in the office" -- The tough guy theme in politics -- Masculine politics and the origin of the tough -- 2 Theodore Roosevelt: the becoming of the frontier and the arrival of the hero -- Performative frontier: staging the myth -- The enduring contradiction of myth -- The land and the man -- The man and the towners -- The girl: gendered opposition -- 3 Ronald Reagan: extension of the frontier and inversion of the hero -- Myth gains primacy -- The exhauster of myth
4 Donald Trump: recovered meanings of the frontier and resurgence of the hero -- Back to the beginning -- New scapes: cowboy goes metropolitan -- Myth continued -- 5 Vladimir Putin: "stolen" meanings of the frontier and a supplementing hero -- Here comes the villain -- "Is he one of us?" -- Concluding thoughts -- Index
