A pinnacle of feeling : American literature and presidential government / Sean McCann.
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نصالسلاسل:20/21 (Princeton, N.J.)الناشر:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2008]تاريخ حقوق النشر: copyright 2008وصف:xiv, 248 pages ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780691136950 (hbk)
- 0691136955 (hbk)
- PS228.P6 M39 2008
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | PS228.P6 M39 2008 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000249386 | ||
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كتاب
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | PS228.P6 M39 2008 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010000249385 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-241) and index.
Introduction. "The executive disease" : presidential power and literary imagination -- Ch. 1. Masters of their constitution : Gertrude Stein and the promise of progressive leadership -- Ch. 2. Governable beasts : Hurston, Roth, and the New Deal -- Ch. 3. The myth of the public interest : pluralism and presidentialism in the fifties -- Ch. 4. Come home, America : Vietnam and the end of the progressive presidency -- Epilogue. Philip Roth and the waning and waxing of political time.
"A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century literature's deep fascination with the modern presidency and with the ideas about the relationship between state power and democracy that underwrote the rise of presidential authority."--BOOK JACKET.
