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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494642903321

Titolo

Historian in Chief : How Presidents Interpret the Past to Shape the Future / / edited by Seth Cotlar and Richard J. Ellis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019

ISBN

0-8139-4253-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 pages)

Disciplina

306.20973

Soggetti

Political culture - United States - History

Collective memory - United States - History

Presidents - United States - Attitudes - History

Electronic books.

United States Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.