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1 online resource (297 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
George Washington: his own historian / Edward Countryman -- Slavery, voice, and loyalty: John Quincy Adams as the first revisionist / David Waldstreicher -- Martin Van Buren, the democratic party, and the Jacksonian reinvention of the constitution / Elvin T. Lim -- Abraham Lincoln goes to the archives: slavery, the Cooper Union Address, and the election of 1860 / Jonathan Earle -- Theodore Roosevelt's historical consciousness and Lincoln's generous nationalism / Kathleen Dalton -- A scholar and his ghosts: Woodrow Wilson as historian in the White House / John Milton Cooper Jr. -- The ordeal of Paris: Herbert Hoover, Woodrow Wilson, and the search for peace / Charlie Laderman -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the problem of historical time / David Sehat -- Profiles in triangulation: John F. Kennedy's neoliberal history of American politics / Jeffrey L. Pasley -- Ronald Reagan's allegories of history / Rick Perlstein -- Barack Obama's use of American history / James T. Kloppenberg. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Presidents -- United States -- Attitudes -- History.
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Collective memory -- United States -- History.
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Political culture -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Historiography.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cotlar, Seth, editor.
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Ellis, Richard (Richard J.), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Historian in chief : how presidents interpret the past to shape the future. Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2019 297 pages 9780813942520 (DLC) 2018051550 |
| ISBN |
9780813942520 |
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9780813942537 (e-book) |
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