The presidents we imagine: two centuries of White House fictions on the page, on the stage, onscreen, and online 9780299231804, 9780299231842, 9780299231835
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Table of contents :
Frontmatter
List of Illustrations (page ix)
Acknowledgments (page xi)
Introduction Presidents in the American Imagination (page 3)
1. Imagining a President George Washington and His Fictional Predecessors (page 14)
2. Seeing Double Clowns, Carnival, and Satire in the Antebellum Years (page 45)
3. Deep, Yet Transparent Myth, Mystery, and "Common Sense" in Post-Civil War Presidential Fictions (page 82)
4. A Simple, Honest Man Presidential Character in the Fictions of the 1930s and 1940s (page 120)
5. The Human Element Presidential Strength, Weakness, and Difference in the 1960s and 1970s (page 161)
6. Who Am I? Presidents and Their "Issues" in Fictions of the 1990s (page 206)
7. Fictitious Times Imagining Presidents at the Turn of the Millennium (page 246)
Conclusion (page 280)
Notes (page 291)
Bibliography (page 349)
Index (page 377)
Frontmatter
List of Illustrations (page ix)
Acknowledgments (page xi)
Introduction Presidents in the American Imagination (page 3)
1. Imagining a President George Washington and His Fictional Predecessors (page 14)
2. Seeing Double Clowns, Carnival, and Satire in the Antebellum Years (page 45)
3. Deep, Yet Transparent Myth, Mystery, and "Common Sense" in Post-Civil War Presidential Fictions (page 82)
4. A Simple, Honest Man Presidential Character in the Fictions of the 1930s and 1940s (page 120)
5. The Human Element Presidential Strength, Weakness, and Difference in the 1960s and 1970s (page 161)
6. Who Am I? Presidents and Their "Issues" in Fictions of the 1990s (page 206)
7. Fictitious Times Imagining Presidents at the Turn of the Millennium (page 246)
Conclusion (page 280)
Notes (page 291)
Bibliography (page 349)
Index (page 377)
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