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The Presidents We Imagine: Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online
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Jeff Smith
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Publication date
February 16, 2009
Pages
391
Binding
Paperback
Edition
1
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780299231842
ISBN-10
0299231844
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
1.25 lbs.
Original list price
$26.95
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
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In such popular television series as The West Wing and 24, in thrillers like Tom Clancyâs novels, and in recent films, plays, graphic novels, and internet cartoons, America has been led by an amazing variety of chief executives. Some of these are real presidents who have been fictionally reimagined. Others are âmight-have-beensâ like Philip Rothâs President Charles Lindbergh. Many more have never existed except in some storytellerâs mind.
           In The Presidents We Imagine, Jeff Smith examines the presidencyâs ever-changing place in the American imagination. Ranging across different media and analyzing works of many kinds, some familiar and some never before studied, he explores the evolution of presidential fictions, their central themes, the impact on them of new and emerging media, and their largely unexamined role in the nationâs real politics.
           Smith traces fictions of the presidency from the plays and polemics of the eighteenth centuryâwhen the new office was born in what Alexander Hamilton called âthe regions of fictionââto the digital products of the twenty-first century, with their seemingly limitless user-defined ways of imagining the worldâs most important political figure. Students of American culture and politics, as well as readers interested in political fiction and film, will find here a colorful, indispensable guide to the many surprising ways Americans have been ârepresentingâ presidents even as those presidents have represented them.
âEspecially timely in an era when media image-mongering increasingly shapes presidential politics.ââPaul S. Boyer, series editor
âSmith's understanding of the sociopolitical realities of US history is impressive; likewise his interpretations of works of literature and popular culture. . . .In addition to presenting thoughtful analysis, the book is also fun. Readers will enjoy encounters with, for example, The Beggar's Opera, Duck Soup, Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, Philip Roth's Plot against America, the comedic campaigns of W. C. Fields for President and Pogo for President, and presidential fictions that continue up to the last President Bush. . . . His writing is fluid and conversational, but every page reveals deep understanding and focus. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.ââCHOICE
           In The Presidents We Imagine, Jeff Smith examines the presidencyâs ever-changing place in the American imagination. Ranging across different media and analyzing works of many kinds, some familiar and some never before studied, he explores the evolution of presidential fictions, their central themes, the impact on them of new and emerging media, and their largely unexamined role in the nationâs real politics.
           Smith traces fictions of the presidency from the plays and polemics of the eighteenth centuryâwhen the new office was born in what Alexander Hamilton called âthe regions of fictionââto the digital products of the twenty-first century, with their seemingly limitless user-defined ways of imagining the worldâs most important political figure. Students of American culture and politics, as well as readers interested in political fiction and film, will find here a colorful, indispensable guide to the many surprising ways Americans have been ârepresentingâ presidents even as those presidents have represented them.
âEspecially timely in an era when media image-mongering increasingly shapes presidential politics.ââPaul S. Boyer, series editor
âSmith's understanding of the sociopolitical realities of US history is impressive; likewise his interpretations of works of literature and popular culture. . . .In addition to presenting thoughtful analysis, the book is also fun. Readers will enjoy encounters with, for example, The Beggar's Opera, Duck Soup, Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, Philip Roth's Plot against America, the comedic campaigns of W. C. Fields for President and Pogo for President, and presidential fictions that continue up to the last President Bush. . . . His writing is fluid and conversational, but every page reveals deep understanding and focus. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.ââCHOICE
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1 edition from Univ of Wisconsin Pr (February 16, 2009)
9780299231842 | details & prices | 391 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $26.95
About: In such popular television series as The West Wing and 24, in thrillers like Tom Clancyâs novels, and in recent films, plays, graphic novels, and internet cartoons, America has been led by an amazing variety of chief executives.
About: In such popular television series as The West Wing and 24, in thrillers like Tom Clancyâs novels, and in recent films, plays, graphic novels, and internet cartoons, America has been led by an amazing variety of chief executives.
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