TY - BOOK AU - Troy,Tevi TI - What Jefferson read, Ike watched, and Obama tweeted: 200 years of popular culture in the White House SN - 1621570398 (pbk.) AV - E 176.1 .T788 2013 PY - 2013///] CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Regnery History, an imprint of Regnery Publishing, Inc. KW - Presidents KW - United States KW - Popular culture KW - History KW - Communication in politics KW - Technological innovations KW - Books and reading N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 ER -