Constructing Presidential Legacy

How We Remember the American President

AvMichael Patrick Cullinane,Sylvia Ellis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

What do we remember about US Presidents, and how do we come to commemorate their legacies?Few personalities loom larger than the President of the United States. Their accomplishments and failures are forensically documented, and their personal lives are under constant scrutiny from the media. But how does a president's legacy emerge, and how to do we come to commemorate it? In Constructing Presidential Legacy, world-leading experts take a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how presidents are remembered. They look at multiple presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Reagan, Obama and Trump. Discover how presidential legacies are constructed during and after a President's time in the Whitehouse, and how they are portrayed in media such as film, museums, public art, political invocations, pop culture, literature and evolving technological advancements.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-11
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:596 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Perspectives on the American Presidency
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474437318

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Mer om författaren

Michael Patrick Cullinane is Professor of U.S. History and the Rob and Melani Walton Chair of Theodore Roosevelt Studies at Dickinson State University in North Dakota. He is the author of The Open Door Era: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Theodore Roosevelt’s Ghost: The History and Memory of an American Icon (Louisiana State University Press, 2017) and Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism: 1898-1909 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). With Sylvia Ellis, he is the series editor of New Perspectives on the American Presidency (Edinburgh University Press) and co-editor of Constructing Presidential Legacy: How we Remember the American President (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Sylvia Ellis is Professor Emerita of Modern History at University of Roehampton.

Recensioner i media

Presidential legacy is a much used but little understood term. This excellent volume demonstrates that its meaning is primarily dependent on the historical context and purposes of those memorializing the president. Its important and original insights merit a wide readership from students of the presidency and those of historical memory. Highly recommended.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Contributors; AcknowledgementsIntroductionMichael Patrick Cullinane and Sylvia EllisPresidential Temples: America’s Presidential Libraries and Centres from the 1930s to Today Benjamin HufbauerPresidential Legacy: A Literary ProblemKristin A. CookPennsylvania Avenue Meets Madison Avenue: The White House and Commercial AdvertisingMichael Patrick CullinaneEisenhower’s Farewell Address in History and MemoryRichard V. DammsPageantry, Performance and Statecraft: Diplomacy and the Presidential ImageThomas Tunstall Allcock"You’ve Got to Decide How you Want History to Remember You": The Legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson in Film and TelevisionGregory FrameThe Farewell Tour: Presidential Travel and Legacy BuildingEmily J. CharnockReflecting or Reshaping?: Landmark Anniversaries and Presidential LegacyMark McLayFrom a "New Paradigm" to "Memorial Sprawl": The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential MemorialPatrick HagopianTop Trumps: Presidential Legacies and New TechnologiesSylvia EllisEpilogue: Confessions of a Presidential BiographerH. W. Brands