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The presidents we imagine: two centuries of White House fictions on the page, on the stage, onscreen, and online
Jeff Smith
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Introduction Presidents in the American Imagination (page 3)
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1. Imagining a President George Washington and His Fictional Predecessors (page 14)
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2. Seeing Double Clowns, Carnival, and Satire in the Antebellum Years (page 45)
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3. Deep, Yet Transparent Myth, Mystery, and "Common Sense" in Post-Civil War Presidential Fictions (page 82)
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4. A Simple, Honest Man Presidential Character in the Fictions of the 1930s and 1940s (page 120)
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5. The Human Element Presidential Strength, Weakness, and Difference in the 1960s and 1970s (page 161)
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6. Who Am I? Presidents and Their "Issues" in Fictions of the 1990s (page 206)
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7. Fictitious Times Imagining Presidents at the Turn of the Millennium (page 246)
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Conclusion (page 280)
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Notes (page 291)
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Bibliography (page 349)
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Index (page 377)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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ALH | 22.1 (Spring 2010): 232-242 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20638651 |
AmQ | 61.2 (Jun. 2009): 405-416 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/27734996 |
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Published: c2009
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
- 9780299231804 (hardcover)
- 9780299231842 (paper)
- 9780299231835 (ebook)