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Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan
Short comedic work by English writer J. G. Ballard / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" (1968), by J. G. Ballard, is a short story written in the style of a scientific report that catalogues a series of psychological experiments intended to measure the psychosexual appeal of the Californian politician Ronald Reagan, who then was governor of the state of California, and also a candidate for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination, which he lost to Richard M. Nixon.
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First published as a pamphlet in 1968, by the Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton, England, the short story “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan” was later republished in The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), a collection of thematically related short stories.[1]