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Historian in chief : how presidents interpret the past to shape the future /
Presidents shape not only the course of history but also how Americans remember and retell that history. From the Oval Office they instruct us what to respect and what to reject in our past. They regale us with stories about who we are as a people, and tell us whom in the pantheon of greats we shoul...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- George Washington: his own historian / Edward Countryman
- Slavery, voice, and loyalty: John Quincy Adams as the first revisionist / David Waldstreicher
- Martin Van Buren, the democratic party, and the Jacksonian reinvention of the constitution / Elvin T. Lim
- Abraham Lincoln goes to the archives: slavery, the Cooper Union Address, and the election of 1860 / Jonathan Earle
- Theodore Roosevelt's historical consciousness and Lincoln's generous nationalism / Kathleen Dalton
- A scholar and his ghosts: Woodrow Wilson as historian in the White House / John Milton Cooper Jr.
- The ordeal of Paris: Herbert Hoover, Woodrow Wilson, and the search for peace / Charlie Laderman
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the problem of historical time / David Sehat
- Profiles in triangulation: John F. Kennedy's neoliberal history of American politics / Jeffrey L. Pasley
- Ronald Reagan's allegories of history / Rick Perlstein
- Barack Obama's use of American history / James T. Kloppenberg.