Constructing Presidential Legacy: How We Remember the American President

Michael Patrick Cullinane; Sylvia Ellis

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2018

Constructing Presidential Legacy

How We Remember the American President

Michael Patrick Cullinane and Sylvia Ellis

In the series New Perspectives on the American Presidency

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474437332

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About this book

What do we remember about US Presidents, and how do we come to commemorate their legacies?

Few personalities loom larger than the President of the United States. Their accomplishments and failures are forensically documented, and their personal lives are under constant scrutiny from the media. But how does a president's legacy emerge, and how to do we come to commemorate it?

In Constructing Presidential Legacy, world-leading experts take a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how presidents are remembered. They look at multiple presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Reagan, Obama and Trump. Discover how presidential legacies are constructed during and after their time in the Whitehouse, and how they are portrayed in media such as film, museums, public art, political invocations, pop culture, literature and evolving technological advancements.

Contributors

H. W. Brands, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Emily J. Charnock, University of Cambridge, UK.

Kristin A. Cook, SOAS, University of London, UK.

Michael Patrick Cullinane, University of Roehampton, UK.

Richard V. Damms, Mississippi State University, Meridian, USA.

Sylvia Ellis, University of Roehampton, UK

Gregory Frame, Bangor University, Wales, UK.

Patrick Hagopian, Lancaster University, UK.

Benjamin Hufbauer, University of Louisville, USA.

Mark McLay, University of Glasgow and Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK.

Thomas Tunstall-Allcock, University of Manchester, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
An introduction to presidential legacy Michael Patrick Cullinane and Sylvia Ellis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Presidential temples: America’s presidential libraries and centers from the 1930s to today Benjamin Hufbauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. Presidential legacy: A literary problem Kristin A. Cook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
3. Pennsylvania Avenue meets Madison Avenue: The White House and commercial advertising Michael Patrick Cullinane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address in history and memory Richard V. Damms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
5. Pageantry, performance, and statecraft: Diplomacy and the presidential image Thomas Tunstall Allcock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
6. “You’ve got to decide how you want history to remember you”: The legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson in film and television Gregory Frame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
7. The farewell tour: Presidential travel and legacy building Emily J. Charnock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
8. Reflecting or reshaping?: Landmark anniversaries and presidential legacy Mark McLay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
9. From a “new paradigm” to “memorial sprawl”: The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Memorial Patrick Hagopian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
10. Top Trumps: Presidential legacies, new technologies, and a new generation Sylvia Ellis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Epilogue: Confessions of a presidential biographer H.W. Brands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Keywords: Politics

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474437332