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Author:

Smith, Jeff, 1958-

Title:

The presidents we imagine : two centuries of White House fictions on the page, on the stage, onscreen, and online / Jeff Smith.

Publisher:

University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xiii, 391 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Political fiction, American--History and criticism.
Presidents in literature.
Political plays, American--History and criticism.
Presidents in motion pictures.

Notes:

Includes bibliogr. references (p. 349-376) and index.

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.

Series:

Studies in American thought and culture

ISBN:

0299231801 (alk. paper)
9780299231804 (alk. paper)
0299231836 (e-book.)
9780299231835 (e-book.)
0299231844 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780299231842 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)259715911

LCCN:

2008039542

Locations:

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

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)