Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The presidential libraries at a glance
  • Introduction: Locating American character at the presidential libraries
  • Museum funding, visitor participation and presidential character
  • Character in play: Performance authority at the presidential library
  • Interlude: Senator Richard Russell reflects on the many characters of Lyndon Johnson
  • Character in motion: Visitor performance
  • Individualism and American character
  • Character forever: Yearning for immortality
  • Interlude: A legacy in song
  • Graham Jackson brings Roosevelt home
  • Utopian character: The role of the imaginary
  • Interlude: Origins on display
  • Gerald Ford encounters his father
  • Disruption, inspiration, and the American community
  • Character interrupted: efficiency and disruption
  • Interlude: Ivaniz Silva remembers saying goodbye to the Bushes
  • Performing the American community
  • Coda: Character 2.0
  • Reinventing the presidential library.