@book{bibcite_9543,
author = {Jodi Kanter},
title = {Presidential Libraries as Performance: Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush},
year = {2016},
pages = {179 pp.},
publisher = {Southern Illnois University Press},
address = {Carbondale, IL},
isbn = {9780809335206},
note = {
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
},
language = {English},
}