The presidents we imagine : two centuries of White House fictions on the page, on the stage, onscreen, and online /
"In such popular television series as The West Wing and 24, in thrillers like Tom Clancy's novels, and in recent films, plays, graphic novels, and internet cartoons, America has been led by an amazing variety of chief executives. Some of these are real presidents who have been fictionally...
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| Language: | English |
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Madison :
University of Wisconsin Press,
2009
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| Series: | Studies in American thought and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Imagining a president: George Washington and his fictional predecessors
- Seeing double: clowns, carnival, and satire in the Antebellum years
- Deep, yet transparent: myth, mystery, and "common sense" in post-Civil War presidential fictions
- A simple, honest man: presidential character in the fictions of the 1930s and 1940s
- The human element: presidential strength, weakness, and difference in the 1960s and 1970s
- Who am I? Presidents and their "issues" in fictions of the 1990s
- Fictitious times: imagining presidents at the turn of the millennium.
