Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction

John E. O'Connor

Peter C. Rollins

Focusing on Issues

The West Wing: White House Narratives That Journalism Cannot Tell

Donnalyn Pompper

The White House Culture of Gender and Race in The West Wing: Insights from the Margins

Christina Lane

The West Wing (NBC) and The West Wing (D.C.): Myth and Reality in Television's Portrayal of the White House

Myron A. Levine

The King's Two Bodies: Identity and Office in Sorkin's West Wing

Heather Richardson Hayton

Language and Structure in The West Wing

Dialogue, Deliberation, and Discourse: The Far-Reaching Politics of The West Wing

Samuel A. Chambers

The West Wing's Textual President: American Constitutional Stability and the New Public Intellectual in the Age of Information

Patrick Finn

The Left Takes Back the Flag: The Steadicam, the Snippet, and the Song in The West Wing's ``In Excelsis Deo''

Greg M. Smith

From The American President to The West Wing: A Scriptwriter's Perspective

Jason P. Vest

Perceptions of The West Wing

The Sincere Sorkin White House, or, The Importance of Seeming Earnest

Pamela Ezell

The West Wing as a Pedagogical Tool: Using Drama to Examine American Politics and Media Perceptions of Our Political System

Staci Beavers

Victorian Parliamentary Novels, The West Wing, and Professionalism

Michelle Mouton

Critical Responses: West Wing Press Reviews

Inside The West Wing's New World

Sharon Waxman

The Feel-Good Presidency: The Pseudo-Politics of The West Wing

Chris Lehmann

The Liberal Imagination

Jon Podhoretz

Bibliographical Overview

The Transformed Presidency: People and Power in the Real West Wing

Myron A. Levine

Works Cited

Index