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The Presidents of American Fiction - Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination (Paperback)
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The Presidents of American Fiction - Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination (Paperback)
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The Presidents of American Fiction brings together American
literature, history, and political science to explore the most
influential fictionalized accounts of the presidency from the early
19th century to the time of Trump. Of late, popular understandings
of the presidency are being radically re-written-consider, for
example, the distinctive myths that accompanied the ascent of the
Obama and Trump administrations-and many readers of all stripes are
radically reimagining the office and its holder. Placing these
changes within a broader cultural context, Michael J. Blouin
investigates narratives involving fictional presidents, from the
supposedly factual to the outright fantastical, within their
distinct literary and historical moments. The author considers
representative texts including works penned by James Fenimore
Cooper from the Jacksonian moment, Gore Vidal in the age of Nixon
and Vietnam, and Philip Roth in the neoliberal period. Through
detailed readings that question how American presidents function as
characters within the popular imagination, this book examines the
presidency as a complex, ever-evolving trope, and in so doing
enhances our appreciation of American literature's inextricable
link with American politics.
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