Presidential libraries as performance : curating American character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush / Jodi Kanter.

Author
Kanter, Jodi, 1970- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Carbondale, [Illinois] : Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
1 online resource (198 pages)

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Subject(s)
Series
Theater in the Americas. [More in this series]
Notes
Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
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.
ISBN
0-8093-3521-2
OCLC
954481491
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