This lavishly illustrated volume recounts the evolution of the presidency, from the age of George Washington until today. Drawing from the vast collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, it provides a revealing glimpse of the culture, particularly the material culture, of the presidency. Using objects as varied as Thomas Jefferson's portable desk, Abraham Lincoln's stovepipe hat, a 1903 Teddy Bear named for Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt's pince-nez, and a drum played during John E ...
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This lavishly illustrated volume recounts the evolution of the presidency, from the age of George Washington until today. Drawing from the vast collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, it provides a revealing glimpse of the culture, particularly the material culture, of the presidency. Using objects as varied as Thomas Jefferson's portable desk, Abraham Lincoln's stovepipe hat, a 1903 Teddy Bear named for Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt's pince-nez, and a drum played during John E Kennedy's funeral, the book explores how the presidency has changed, and how presidential administrations have shaped -- and been shaped by -- relationships with the American people. Advertisements, movies, and television programs are also invoked to show how popular culture has informed Americans' collective memory of the presidency. The American Presidency accompanies a permanent exhibition of the same name at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
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Add this copy of The American Presidency: a Glorious Burden to cart. $150.00, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Smithsonian Inst. Press.
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Very good in very good jacket. Oversized, 187 pages. Profusely illus. (many in color), reading list, Presidential chronology, slight scuffing to DJ. Signed by all four co-authors on the title page. Introduction by Richard Norton Smith, director of the Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum. Drawing from the vast collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, this book provides a revealing glimpse of the culture, particularly the material culture, of the presidency: the duties, responsibilities, rituals, representations, and personal effects of America's chief executive. There is a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt on the title page. Topics covered include creating the Presidency, Presidential campaigns, celebrating inaugurations, Presidential roles, limits of Presidential power, the White House as symbol and home, assassination and mourning, communicating the Presidency, the Presidency in popular imagination, and life after the Presidency.
