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Presidential libraries as performance : curating American character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush
- Title
- Presidential libraries as performance : curating American character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush / Jodi Kanter.
- Author
- Kanter, Jodi, 1970-
- Publication
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 179 pages; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Theater in the Americas
- Uniform Title
- Theater in the Americas.
- Theater in the Americas
- Alternative Title
- Curating American character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-11415
- ISBN
- 9780809335206
- 0809335204
- LCCN
- 2015050129
- OCLC
- 926062160
- Author
- Kanter, Jodi, 1970- author.
- Title
- Presidential libraries as performance : curating American character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush / Jodi Kanter.
- Publisher
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Theater in the AmericasTheater in the Americas.Theater in the Americas
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-11415