Historian in Chief How Presidents Interpret the Past to Shape the Future / edited by Seth Cotlar and Richard J. Ellis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellis, Richard (Richard J.), editor.

Cotlar, Seth, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--United States--History.

Political culture.

Collective memory--United States--History.

Collective memory.

Presidents--United States--Attitudes--History.

Presidents.

United States--Historiography.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2019.

Summary:

Contending that the nation's historians in chief should be evaluated not only on the basis of how effective they are in persuading others, Historian in Chief argues they should be judged on the veracity of the history they tell.

Contents:

George Washington: his own historian / Edward Countryman

Slavery, voice, and loyalty: John Quincy Adams as the first revisionist / David Waldstreicher

Martin Van Buren, the democratic party, and the Jacksonian reinvention of the constitution / Elvin T. Lim

Abraham Lincoln goes to the archives: slavery, the Cooper Union Address, and the election of 1860 / Jonathan Earle

Theodore Roosevelt's historical consciousness and Lincoln's generous nationalism / Kathleen Dalton

A scholar and his ghosts: Woodrow Wilson as historian in the White House / John Milton Cooper Jr.

The ordeal of Paris: Herbert Hoover, Woodrow Wilson, and the search for peace / Charlie Laderman

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the problem of historical time / David Sehat

Profiles in triangulation: John F. Kennedy's neoliberal history of American politics / Jeffrey L. Pasley

Ronald Reagan's allegories of history / Rick Perlstein

Barack Obama's use of American history / James T. Kloppenberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813942537

0813942535

OCLC:

1086210885