Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- An introduction to Presidential Legacy
- 1 Presidential Temples: America’s Presidential Libraries and Centers from the 1930s to Today
- 2 Presidential Legacy: A Literary Problem
- 3 Pennsylvania Avenue meets Madison Avenue: The White House and Commercial Advertising
- 4 Eisenhower’s Farewell Address in History and Memory
- 5 Pageantry, Performance, and Statecraft: Diplomacy and the Presidential Image
- 6 “You’ve got to decide how you want history to remember you”: The legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson in film and Television
- 7 The Farewell Tour: Presidential Travel and Legacy Building
- 8 Reflecting or Reshaping?: Landmark Anniversaries and Presidential Legacy
- 9 From a “New Paradigm” to “Memorial Sprawl”: The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Memorial
- 10 Top Trumps: Presidential Legacies, New Technologies, and a New Generation
- Epilogue: Confessions of a Presidential Biographer
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- An introduction to Presidential Legacy
- 1 Presidential Temples: America’s Presidential Libraries and Centers from the 1930s to Today
- 2 Presidential Legacy: A Literary Problem
- 3 Pennsylvania Avenue meets Madison Avenue: The White House and Commercial Advertising
- 4 Eisenhower’s Farewell Address in History and Memory
- 5 Pageantry, Performance, and Statecraft: Diplomacy and the Presidential Image
- 6 “You’ve got to decide how you want history to remember you”: The legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson in film and Television
- 7 The Farewell Tour: Presidential Travel and Legacy Building
- 8 Reflecting or Reshaping?: Landmark Anniversaries and Presidential Legacy
- 9 From a “New Paradigm” to “Memorial Sprawl”: The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Memorial
- 10 Top Trumps: Presidential Legacies, New Technologies, and a New Generation
- Epilogue: Confessions of a Presidential Biographer
- Index
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- Constructing Presidential LegacyHow we Remember the American President, pp. v - viPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2018