Full Description
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.
Contents
Chapter One - Gotham Remembers: New York Presidential Commemoration from the Confederation Congress Through the Virginia Dynasty
Keith J. Muchowski
Chapter Two - "A Land of Pharaoh and His Plagues": John Randolph of Roanoke's Mission to Russia and the Jacksonian Presidency
Olga Akroyd
Chapter Three - "Just Folks?": Jack Downing, The West Wing, and the Yankee Struggle for "Real America"
Jeff Smith
Chapter Four - William Henry Harrison and the Making of the Politically Imagined American Midwest
Wesley Bishop
Chapter Five - Andrew Johnson: Reassessing the Political Impact of the Tailor from Tennessee
Frederick David Gordon
Chapter Six - A President's 'Pilgrimage of the Heart': Place, Ancestry, and Woodrow Wilson's 1918 Visit to Carlisle
Sam Edwards
Chapter Seven - "Dear Mr. President: Herbert Hoover & Harry Truman's Unique Friendship, 1945-1964"
Lisa Payne Ossian
Chapter Eight - "JFK in Dallas: Collective Memory, Media Events, and Don DeLillo's Libra"
Laura Álvarez Trigo
Chapter Nine - How Ba
