Presidents and Place: America's Favorite Sons examines the interrelationship between America's leading political icons and various facets of space and place, including places of birth and death as well as regional allegiances.
FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand NewPresidents and Place: America's Favorite Sons highlights the interrelationship between America's leading political icons and various facets of space and place, including places of birth and death as well as regional allegiances, among others. Chapters examine the legacy of relationships between presidents and place in a variety of social and cultural forms, ranging from famous political campaigns to television series to developments in tourism. Beginning with the political iconography of New York's Federal Hall in early eighteenth-century America and ending with a focus on the Republican Party's electoral relationship with the South, the interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse nature of the chapters reveals that place has more than a biographical significance in relation to US presidents.
Thomas J. Cobb is lecturer in International Relations at Coventry UniversityOlga Akroyd is honorary researcher at University of Kent
Chapter One - Gotham Remembers: New York Presidential Commemoration from the Confederation Congress Through the Virginia DynastyKeith J. Muchowski Chapter Two - "A Land of Pharaoh and His Plagues": John Randolph of Roanoke's Mission to Russia and the Jacksonian PresidencyOlga Akroyd Chapter Three - "Just Folks?": Jack Downing, The West Wing, and the Yankee Struggle for "Real America"Jeff SmithChapter Four - William Henry Harrison and the Making of the Politically Imagined American MidwestWesley BishopChapter Five - Andrew Johnson: Reassessing the Political Impact of the Tailor from TennesseeFrederick David GordonChapter Six - A President's 'Pilgrimage of the Heart': Place, Ancestry, and Woodrow Wilson's 1918 Visit to Carlisle Sam EdwardsChapter Seven - "Dear Mr. President: Herbert Hoover & Harry Truman's Unique Friendship, 1945-1964"Lisa Payne OssianChapter Eight - "JFK in Dallas: Collective Memory, Media Events, and Don DeLillo's Libra"Laura Álvarez Trigo Chapter Nine - How Barry Goldwater Merged Arizona's "Rugged Landscape" with "Rugged Individualism"Ilias Ben MnaChapter Ten - "I'm a Southerner": The Regional Pride and Burden of President Jimmy CarterD. Jason BerggrenChapter Eleven - Plains and Simple: The Influences of Plains, Georgia, and Small-Town Nostalgia on Jimmy Carter's Public PersonaElizabeth ReesChapter Twelve - The Carter Mystique: The Effects of Jimmy Carter's Election on Tourism in Georgia and the SouthGiuliano Santangeli ValenzaniChapter Thirteen - Tennessee Over Texas: How Appalachia's Shift to Republican Primacy Predated Trump's PresidencyThomas J. CobbChapter Fourteen - The American South and Presidential Politics, 1964-2020Scott E. Buchanan
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, Thomas J. Cobb and Olga Akroyd and a cast of contributors consider the places that shaped presidents and other key figures in American history. These compelling essays remind us that historical settings are more than a backdrop. -- Michael Patrick Cullinane, Dickinson State University
Presidents and Place: America's Favorite Sons highlights the interrelationship between America's leading political icons and various facets of space and place, including places of birth and death as well as regional allegiances, among others. The chapters examine the legacy of relationships between presidents and place in a variety of social and cultural forms, ranging from famous political campaigns to television series to developments in tourism. Beginning with the political iconography of New York's Federal Hall in early eighteenth-century America and ending with a focus on the Republican Party's electoral relationship with the South, the interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse nature of the chapters reveals that place has more than a biographical significance in relation to US presidents.
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, Thomas J. Cobb and Olga Akroyd and a cast of contributors consider the places that shaped presidents and other key figures in American history. These compelling essays remind us that historical settings are more than a backdrop.
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