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Title:

Historian in chief : how presidents interpret the past to shape the future / edited by Seth Cotlar and Richard J. Ellis.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

viii, 283 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Presidents--United States--History.--History.
United States--Historiography.
Collective memory--United States--History.
Political culture--United States--History.

Other Authors:

Cotlar, Seth, editor.
Ellis, Richard (Richard J.), editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0813942527
9780813942520

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1061862936

LCCN:

2018051550

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)