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The Presidents We Imagine : Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online /
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Madison :
University of Wisconsin Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
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.