A pinnacle of feeling : American literature and presidential government / Sean McCann.
There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century literature's deep fascination with the modern preside...
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| Series: | 20/21 (Princeton, N.J.)
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction: "The Executive Disease": Presidential Power and Literary Imagination; Chapter One: Masters of Their Constitution: Gertrude Stein and the Promise of Progressive Leadership; Chapter Two: Governable Beasts: Hurston, Roth, and the New Deal; Chapter Three: The Myth of the Public Interest: Pluralism and Presidentialism in the Fifties; Chapter Four: Come Home, America: Vietnam and the End of the Progressive Presidency; Epilogue: Philip Roth and the Waning and Waxing of Political Time; Notes; Index.