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Remembering the enduring legacies of the American presidency
What do we remember about Thomas Jefferson, the Roosevelts or Barack Obama - and how do we come to commemorate their legacies? Few personalities loom larger than the American president. Their accomplishments and failures are forensically documented, and their personal lives undergo pervasive examination by the mass media.
Such interest does not end when the president leaves the White House and this volume takes a holistic view of the American presidency by examining the impressions we develop in the years after their retirement. A collection of world-leading experts on the presidency explain how American chief executives acquire legacies and how those legacies evolve through various modes of commemoration. Incorporating multiple presidencies, the ten chapters presented here investigate some of the most prominent former presidents, but, most importantly, they explore the way various types of tribute alter public memory. Be it anniversaries, farewell tours, museum exhibitions, public art, advertising, film, political invocation, pop culture or literature, the modes of memorialisation contribute to our perceptions. The result of this multi-disciplinary approach is an invaluable framework for observing how political legacies come to be.
Michael Patrick Cullinane is a Professor of US History at the University of Roehampton.
Sylvia Ellis is a Professor of American History at the University of Roehampton.
Table des matières
List of Contributors; Acknowledgements
Introduction
Michael Patrick Cullinane and Sylvia Ellis
- Presidential Temples: America's Presidential Libraries and Centres from the 1930s to Today
Benjamin Hufbauer
- Presidential Legacy: A Literary Problem
Kristin A. Cook
- Pennsylvania Avenue Meets Madison Avenue: The White House and Commercial Advertising
Michael Patrick Cullinane
- Eisenhower's Farewell Address in History and Memory
Richard V. Damms
- Pageantry, Performance and Statecraft: Diplomacy and the Presidential Image
Thomas Tunstall Allcock
- "You've Got to Decide How you Want History to Remember You": The Legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson in Film and Television
Gregory Frame
- The Farewell Tour: Presidential Travel and Legacy Building
Emily J. Charnock
- Reflecting or Reshaping?: Landmark Anniversaries and Presidential Legacy
Mark McLay
- From a "New Paradigm" to "Memorial Sprawl": The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Memorial
Patrick Hagopian
- Top Trumps: Presidential Legacies and New Technologies
Sylvia Ellis
- Epilogue: Confessions of a Presidential Biographer
H. W. Brands
A propos de l'auteur
Michael Patrick Cullinane is Professor of U.S. History at the University of Roehampton. 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 of Modern History at University of Roehampton
Résumé
World-leading experts take a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Reagan, Obama and Trump, are remembered in film, museums, public art, political invocations, pop culture, literature and evolving technological advancements.
