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Acting Presidents: 100 Years of Plays about the Presidency (Evolving American Presidency)

By Bruce E. Altschuler

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2010
ISBN
0230110177, 9780230110175
LCC
PS338.P6 A58 2011
Open Library ID
OL24538508M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2827428 bytes)
Pages
208\208
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Although films about the presidency have been a popular subject for analysis, there is no equivalent literature about plays that portray chief executives. This book fills that gap by examining in detail about 50 plays depicting historical, fictional and even musical presidents. It explains how, as the public's trust in government has declined, the heroic presidents of the first half of the twentieth century have been replaced on stage by such antiheroes as Nixon and Harding.

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