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Author Kanter, Jodi, 1970- author.

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

Publication Info. Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Theater in the Americas
Theater in the Americas.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Presidential libraries -- United States.
Presidential libraries.
United States.
Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Presidents.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Character -- Political aspects -- United States.
Character.
National characteristics, American.
National characteristics, American.
Performative (Philosophy)
Performative (Philosophy)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Added Title Curating American character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush
ISBN 9780809335213 (electronic book)
0809335212 (electronic book)
9780809335206
0809335204