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Constructing Presidential Legacy: How We Remember the American President (New Perspectives on the American Presidency)

Constructing Presidential Legacy: How We Remember the American President (New Perspectives on the American Presidency)

Current price: $175.00
Publication Date: November 11th, 2018
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:
9781474437318
Pages:
304
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Description

World-leading experts take a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how presidents are remembered. Presidents covered include Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Reagan, Obama and Trump. Looks at how presidential legacies are constructed during and after a President's time in the Whitehouse. Analyses how Presidents are portrayed in media such as film, museums, public art, political invocations, pop culture, literature and evolving technological advancements.

About the Author

Michael Patrick Cullinane is Professor of U.S. History and the Rob and Melani Walton Chair of Theodore Roosevelt Studies at Dickinson State University in North Dakota. He is the author of The Open Door Era: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Theodore Roosevelt's Ghost: The History and Memory of an American Icon (Louisiana State University Press, 2017) and Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism: 1898-1909 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). With Sylvia Ellis, he is the series editor of New Perspectives on the American Presidency (Edinburgh University Press) and co-editor of Constructing Presidential Legacy: How we Remember the American President (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Sylvia Ellis is Professor Emerita of Modern History at University of Roehampton.