Presidential travel : the journey from George Washington to George W. Bush / Richard J. Ellis.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2008]تاريخ حقوق النشر: copyright 2008وصف:ix, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780700615803 (hbk)
- 0700615806 (hbk)
- E176.1 E47 2008
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | E176.1 E47 2008 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000100386 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | E176.1 E47 2008 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010000100385 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-305) and index.
1. The Origins of Presidential Travel: The Tours of George Washington and James Monroe -- 2. The Life of the Party: The Tours of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren -- 3. Democratic Manners and Presidential Dignity: The Tours of Zachary Taylor and Andrew Johnson -- 4. Protecting the President -- 5. Paying for Presidential Travel -- 6. Going Abroad: Breaking the "Ironclad Custom" -- 7. Trains, Planes, and the Paradox of the Transportation Revolution -- Conclusion: The Rise of the Regal Presidency.
"In this first book-length study of the history of presidential travel, Richard Ellis explores how travel has reflected and shaped the changing relationship between American presidents and the American people. Tracing the evolution of the president from First Citizen to First Celebrity, he spins a lively narrative that details what happens when our leaders hit the road to meet the people." "Presidents, Ellis shows, have long placed travel at the service of politics: Rutherford "the Rover" Hayes visited thirty states and six territories and was the first president to reach the Pacific, while William Howard Taft logged an average of 30,000 rail miles a year. Unearthing previously untold stories of our peripatetic presidents, Ellis also reveals when the public started paying for presidential travel, why nineteenth-century presidents never left the country, and why earlier presidents - such as Andrew Jackson, once punched in the nose on a riverboat - journeyed without protection." "Ellis marks the fine line between accessibility and safety, from John Quincy Adams skinny-dipping in the Potomac to George W. clearing brush in Crawford. Particularly important, Ellis notes, is the advent of air travel. While presidents now travel more widely, they have paradoxically become more remote from the people, as Air Force One flies over towns through which presidential trains once rumbled to rousing cheers. Designed to close the gap between president and people, travel now dramatizes the distance that separates the president from the people and reinforces the image of a regal presidency."--BOOK JACKET.