Constructing Presidential Legacy : : How We Remember the American President / / Michael Patrick Cullinane, Sylvia Ellis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Cullinane, Michael Patrick,; Ellis, Sylvia,
• MitwirkendeR: Allcock, Thomas Tunstall,; Brands, H.W.,; Charnock, Emily J.,; Cook, Kristin A.,; Cullinane, Michael Patrick,; Damms, Richard V.,; Ellis, Sylvia,; Frame, Gregory,; Hagopian, Patrick,; Hufbauer, Benjamin,; McLay, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives on the American Presidency : NPAP
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

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.ContributorsH. W. Brands, University of Texas at Austin, USAEmily 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, UKGregory 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- An introduction to presidential legacy -- 1. Presidential temples: America’s presidential libraries and centers from the 1930s to today -- 2. Presidential legacy: A literary problem -- 3. Pennsylvania Avenue meets Madison Avenue: The White House and commercial advertising -- 4. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address in history and memory -- 5. Pageantry, performance, and statecraft: Diplomacy and the presidential image -- 6. “You’ve got to decide how you want history to remember you”: The legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson in film and television -- 7. The farewell tour: Presidential travel and legacy building -- 8. Reflecting or reshaping?: Landmark anniversaries and presidential legacy -- 9. From a “new paradigm” to “memorial sprawl”: The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Memorial -- 10. Top Trumps: Presidential legacies, new technologies, and a new generation -- Epilogue: Confessions of a presidential biographer -- Index