Constructing Presidential Legacy: How We Remember the American President

ISBN-13: 9781474437318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

Michael Patrick Cullinane; Sylvia Ellis

Opis

World-leading experts take a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Reagan, Obama and Trump, are remembered in film, museums, public art, political invocations, pop culture, literature and evolving technological advancements.

Spis treści

List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction, Michael Patrick Cullinane and Sylvia Ellis; 1. Presidential Temples: America’s Presidential Libraries and Centres from the 1930s to Today, Benjamin Hufbauer; 2. Presidential Legacy: A Literary Problem, Kristin A. Cook; 3. Pennsylvania Avenue Meets Madison Avenue: The White House and Commercial Advertising, Michael Patrick Cullinane; 4. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address in History and Memory, Richard V. Damms; 5. Pageantry, Performance and Statecraft: Diplomacy and the Presidential Image, Thomas Tunstall Allcock; 6. “You’ve Got to Decide How you Want History to Remember You”: The Legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson in Film and Television, Gregory Frame; 7. The Farewell Tour: Presidential Travel and Legacy Building, Emily J. Charnock; 8. Reflecting or Reshaping?: Landmark Anniversaries and Presidential Legacy, Mark McLay; 9. From a “New Paradigm” to “Memorial Sprawl”: The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Memorial, Patrick Hagopian; 10. Top Trumps: Presidential Legacies and New Technologies, Sylvia Ellis; 11. Epilogue: Confessions of a Presidential Biographer, H. W. Brands.