Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan is a short work by dystopian English author J.G. Ballard, first published as a pamphlet by the Unicorn Bookshop, Brighton, in 1968. It was later collected in "The Atrocity Exhibition". It is written in the style of a scientific paper and catalogues an apocryphal series of bizarre experiments intended to measure the psychosexual appeal of Ronald Reagan, who was then the Governor of California and candidate for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination. Ballard himself was inspired by the then-new phenomenon of "media politicians" and in his
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