LEADER 03374nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910808053903321 005 20240418053023.0 010 $a0-299-23183-6 010 $a9786612270581 010 $a1-282-27058-3 024 7 $a2027/heb08790 035 $a(CKB)1000000000817491 035 $a(dli)HEB08790 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000341763 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11257855 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341763 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10395350 035 $a(PQKB)11531194 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444850 035 $a(OCoLC)679316452 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12414 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444850 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10315767 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL227058 035 $a(OCoLC)667894655 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011661687 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000817491 100 $a20080926d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe presidents we imagine $etwo centuries of White House fictions on the page, on the stage, onscreen, and online /$fJeff Smith 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 391 p. )$cill. ; 225 1 $aStudies in American thought and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-299-23184-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aImagining 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 1930's and 1940's -- The human element: presidential strength, weakness, and difference in the 1960's and 1970's -- Who am I? Presidents and their "issues" in fictions of the 1990's -- Fictitious times: imagining presidents at the turn of the millennium. 330 $aIn The Presidents We Imagine, Jeff Smith examines the presidency's ever-changing place in the American imagination. Ranging across different media and analyzing works of many kinds, some familiar and some never before studied, he explores the evolution of presidential fictions, their central themes, the impact on them of new and emerging media, and their largely unexamined role in the nation's real politics. 410 0$aStudies in American thought and culture. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitical fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPresidents in literature 606 $aPolitical plays, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPresidents in motion pictures 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitical fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPresidents in literature. 615 0$aPolitical plays, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPresidents in motion pictures. 676 $a700/.45873099 700 $aSmith$b Jeff$f1958-$0915735 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808053903321 996 $aThe presidents we imagine$92052882 997 $aUNINA