Acknowledgments
Introduction: Moving Portraits of the President
1. James Fenimore Cooper’s Exceptional Presidents
2. George Lippard and the Gothic President
3. Williams Wells Brown and the Disembodied President
4. The President in Books for Boys
5. The President in Books for Girls
6. Hamlin Garland, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Tortured Heart of American Realism
7. Gore Vidal and the Performative Presidency
8. The Imperial Presidents of American Literature
Epilogue: George Saunders and Presidential Melancholia
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