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Presidential libraries as performance : curating American character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush / Jodi Kanter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kanter, Jodi, 1970- author.
- Series:
- Theater in the Americas.
- Theater in the Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performative (Philosophy).
- National characteristics, American.
- Character--Political aspects--United States.
- Character.
- Presidents--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Presidents.
- Presidential libraries--United States.
- Presidential libraries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale, [Illinois] : Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- How do the funding, setting architecture, and exhibition of a presidential library shape our understanding of the president's character?And how do diverse performances of the presidency create radically different opportunities for the practice of American citizenship?.
- Contents:
- The presidential libraries at a glance
- Introduction: Locating American character at the presidential libraries
- Museum funding, visitor participation and presidential character
- Character in play: Performance authority at the presidential library
- Interlude: Senator Richard Russell reflects on the many characters of Lyndon Johnson
- Character in motion: Visitor performance
- Individualism and American character
- Character forever: Yearning for immortality
- Interlude: A legacy in song - Graham Jackson brings Roosevelt home
- Utopian character: The role of the imaginary
- Interlude: Origins on display - Gerald Ford encounters his father
- Disruption, inspiration, and the American community
- Character interrupted: efficiency and disruption
- Interlude: Ivaniz Silva remembers saying goodbye to the Bushes
- Performing the American community
- Coda: Character 2.0 - Reinventing the presidential library.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-3521-2
- OCLC:
- 954481491
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