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Presidential libraries as performance, curating American character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush, Jodi Kanter

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Presidential libraries as performance, curating American character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush, Jodi Kanter
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-170) and index
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contains biographical information
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Presidential libraries as performance
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bibliography
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926062160
Responsibility statement
Jodi Kanter
Series statement
Theater in the Americas
Sub title
curating American character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush
Table of 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
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Curating American character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush

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