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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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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • 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)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
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
ISBN(s)
  • 9780299231804 (hardcover)
  • 9780299231842 (paper)
  • 9780299231835 (ebook)
Subject
  • American: General & Multiperiod
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