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Presidential Libraries As Performance: Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush
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Jodi Kanter
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Southern Illinois Univ Pr
Publication date
August 11, 2016
Pages
184
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780809335206
ISBN-10
0809335204
Dimensions
0.50 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price
$35.00
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university press
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How do the funding, setting architecture, and exhibition of a presidential library shape our understanding of the presidentâs character? And how do diverse performances of the presidency create radically different opportunities for the practice of American citizenship? In Presidential Libraries as Performance:Â Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush, Jodi Kanter analyzes presidential libraries as performances that encourage visitors to think in particular ways about executive leadership and about their own roles in public life.
Kanter considers the moments in the presidentsâ lives the museums choose to interpret, and not to interpret, and how the libraries approach common subjects in the presidential museum narrativeâthe presidentsâ early years in relation to cultural ideals, the librariesâ representations of presidential failures, personal and political, and the question of presidential legacy. Identifying the limited number of strategies the libraries currently use to represent the diversity of the American experience and American character, Kanter offers concrete suggestions for reinventing and reshaping the practices of museum professionals and visitors within the walls of these institutions.
Presidential museums can tell us important things about the relationships between performance and politics, entertainment and history, and leaders and the people they lead. Kanter demonstrates how the presidential libraries generate normative narratives about individual presidents, historical events, and what it means to be an American.
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Kanter considers the moments in the presidentsâ lives the museums choose to interpret, and not to interpret, and how the libraries approach common subjects in the presidential museum narrativeâthe presidentsâ early years in relation to cultural ideals, the librariesâ representations of presidential failures, personal and political, and the question of presidential legacy. Identifying the limited number of strategies the libraries currently use to represent the diversity of the American experience and American character, Kanter offers concrete suggestions for reinventing and reshaping the practices of museum professionals and visitors within the walls of these institutions.
Presidential museums can tell us important things about the relationships between performance and politics, entertainment and history, and leaders and the people they lead. Kanter demonstrates how the presidential libraries generate normative narratives about individual presidents, historical events, and what it means to be an American.
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