What Jefferson read, Ike watched, and Obama tweeted : 200 years of popular culture in the White House / Tevi Troy.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Regnery History, an imprint of Regnery Publishing, Inc., [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: xix, 332 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1621570398 (pbk.)
  • 9781621570394 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E 176.1 .T788 2013
Contents:
Introduction: from Cicero to Snooki: how culture shapes our presidents -- The founders: reading for wisdom and virtue -- Theater and the common man in the nineteenth century -- Lincoln: reading as a tool for advancement -- Theodore Roosevelt: cuture and destiny -- Reflected glory -- FDR: president as cultural output -- Music and the quest for cool -- All the presidents' movies: finding archetypal leadership in film -- The "vast wasteland": presidents and television -- Reading and the modern president -- Obama, full-fledged product of American pop culture -- Conclusion.
Summary: In What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in in the White House, presidential scholar and former White House aide Tevi Troy combines research with witty observation to tell the story of how our presidents have been shaped by popular culture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

In What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in in the White House, presidential scholar and former White House aide Tevi Troy combines research with witty observation to tell the story of how our presidents have been shaped by popular culture.

Introduction: from Cicero to Snooki: how culture shapes our presidents -- The founders: reading for wisdom and virtue -- Theater and the common man in the nineteenth century -- Lincoln: reading as a tool for advancement -- Theodore Roosevelt: cuture and destiny -- Reflected glory -- FDR: president as cultural output -- Music and the quest for cool -- All the presidents' movies: finding archetypal leadership in film -- The "vast wasteland": presidents and television -- Reading and the modern president -- Obama, full-fledged product of American pop culture -- Conclusion.

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