Presidential Libraries As Performance Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W Bush 1st Edition by Jodi Kanter ISBN 0809335204 9780809335213

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ISBN 10: 0809335204
ISBN 13: 9780809335213
Author: Jodi Kanter

How do the funding, setting architecture, and exhibition of a presidential library shape our understanding of the president’s character? And how do diverse performances of the presidency create radically different opportunities for the practice of American citizenship? In Presidential Libraries as Performance: Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush, Jodi Kanter analyzes presidential libraries as performances that encourage visitors to think in particular ways about executive leadership and about their own roles in public life.

Kanter considers the moments in the presidents’ lives the museums choose to interpret, and not to interpret, and how the libraries approach common subjects in the presidential museum narrative—the presidents’ early years in relation to cultural ideals, the libraries’ representations of presidential failures, personal and political, and the question of presidential legacy. Identifying the limited number of strategies the libraries currently use to represent the diversity of the American experience and American character, Kanter offers concrete suggestions for reinventing and reshaping the practices of museum professionals and visitors within the walls of these institutions.

Presidential museums can tell us important things about the relationships between performance and politics, entertainment and history, and leaders and the people they lead. Kanter demonstrates how the presidential libraries generate normative narratives about individual presidents, historical events, and what it means to be an American.

Presidential Libraries As Performance Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W Bush 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Herbert Hoover and the Invention of the Presidential Library
Chapter 2. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Performance of Public Service
Chapter 3. The Eisenhower Library and the Theatre of Command
Chapter 4. The Kennedy Library and the Making of the New Frontier Myth
Chapter 5. The Nixon Library and the Politics of Redemption
Chapter 6. The Reagan Library and the Spectacle of American Optimism
Chapter 7. The Clinton Library and the Performance of Global Citizenship
Chapter 8. The George W. Bush Library and the Narrative of Freedom

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