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001 2008039542
003 DLC
005 20151118080527.0
008 080926s2009 wiua b s001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780299231842 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9780299231835 (e-book.)
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050 00 $aPS228.P6$bS65 2009
082 00 $a700/.45873099$222
100 1 $aSmith, Jeff,$d1958 January 25-
245 14 $aThe presidents we imagine :$btwo centuries of White House fictions on the page, on the stage, onscreen, and online /$cJeff Smith.
260 $aMadison :$bUniversity of Wisconsin Press,$cc2009.
300 $axiii, 391 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
440 0 $aStudies in American thought and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliogr. references (p. 349-376) and index.
505 0 $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 1930s and 1940s -- The human element: presidential strength, weakness, and difference in the 1960s and 1970s -- Who am I? Presidents and their "issues" in fictions of the 1990s -- Fictitious times: imagining presidents at the turn of the millennium.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPolitical fiction, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPresidents in literature.
650 0 $aPolitical plays, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPresidents in motion pictures.