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He Hates to be Second (RT 3:14, 2008)

He Hates to be Second uses excavated fragments from a 1963 article about Robert Kennedy and images and advertisements from similar 1963 publications. Most of the article is blacked out to highlight key phrases that speak to aggressive gestures that marked this era through building tensions of the Cold War and how masculinity was packaged and sold through advertisements. The text functions as an antithesis to the practice of blacked out government documents that hide sensitive information.