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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.
Published | Mar 20 2023 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 302 |
ISBN | 9781666913736 |
Imprint | Lexington Books |
Illustrations | 3 b/w illustrations; 1 tables; |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, Thomas Cobb and Olga Akroyd and a cast of contributors consider the places that shaped presidents and other key figures in American history. These compelling essays remind us that historical settings are more than a backdrop.
Michael Patrick Cullinane, Dickinson State University
President and Place: America’s Favorite Sons offers a new way to study the presidency. It consists of 14 essays that span the two hundred and thirty plus years of the American Presidency. It features notable and obscure presidential figures like Andrew Johnson, who may have been out of place politically after the Lincoln assassination, yet the essay offers a fresh analysis of Johnson’s impact at the state and local level. Further the essay comparison of Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman provides an unusual presidential lens to pre and post New Deal policy. This collection of presidential essays will be enjoyed by both scholars, students and anyone who seeks to learn about the presidency from a more subtle perspective.
John David Briley, East Tennessee State University
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