TY - SER
AU - Jodi Kanter
CY - Carbondale, IL
LA - English
N1 - <p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The presidential libraries at a glance </li><li>Introduction: Locating American character at the presidential libraries </li><li>Museum funding, visitor participation and presidential character </li><li>Character in play: Performance authority at the presidential library </li><li>Interlude: Senator Richard Russell reflects on the many characters of Lyndon Johnson </li><li>Character in motion: Visitor performance </li><li>Individualism and American character </li><li>Character forever: Yearning for immortality </li><li>Interlude: A legacy in song </li><li>Graham Jackson brings Roosevelt home </li><li>Utopian character: The role of the imaginary </li><li>Interlude: Origins on display </li><li>Gerald Ford encounters his father </li><li>Disruption, inspiration, and the American community </li><li>Character interrupted: efficiency and disruption </li><li>Interlude: Ivaniz Silva remembers saying goodbye to the Bushes </li><li>Performing the American community </li><li>Coda: Character 2.0 </li><li>Reinventing the presidential library</li></ul>
PB - Southern Illnois University Press
PP - Carbondale, IL
PY - 2016
SN - 9780809335206
EP - 179 pp.
TI - Presidential Libraries as Performance: Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush
ER -