Profiles in Power

Personality, Persona, and the U.S. President
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41444-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Biography Studies

The turbulent and unpredictable presidency of Donald Trump has intensified public and scholarly attention to the personalities of presidents. Profiles in Power approaches the presidency as a personal affair that is shaped, in part, by the character of the occupants of the Oval Office and their attempts to craft public personas. In ten biographical essays that focus on individual presidents and on one First Lady, the authors in this volume build on a renewed interest in presidential studies that emphasizes individual agency. As such, the book seeks to bring the personal aspect of the presidency back into U.S. political history.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Olthof, Jelte

Zwiers, Maarten

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction: The Personal Presidency
Jelte Olthof and Maarten Zwiers

1 The Symbiosis between Biography and History
Nigel Hamilton

2 U.S. Presidents and Psychohistory
Arthur Eaton

3 Origins and Development of Lincoln’s Antislavery Policies
David Zarefsky

4 Jackson’s Heir: How Andrew Johnson Shaped the Post-civil War Political Order
Mark Leon de Vries

5 Franklin D. Roosevelt as an Architect of Public History
Sara Polak

6 “A Different and Better Future”: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Global Atlantic
Dario Fazzi

7 War Hero in the White House: Dwight Eisenhower and the Politics of Peace, Prosperity, and Party
Robert Mason

8 “Like a Jackass in a Hailstorm”: Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, and the Upending of the American Century
Keith M. Finley

9 The Perfect Storm: Richard Nixon and the Office of Telecommunications Policy
Kathryn Cramer Brownell

10 Hellhounds on the Campaign Trail: Region, Religion, and Manhood in Jimmy Carter’s Race for the White House
Maarten Zwiers

11 Will the Real Trump Please Stand Up? Donald Trump’s Elusive Persona
Jelte Olthof

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jelte Olthof, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Groningen, where he teaches rhetoric and the U.S. Constitution. His dissertation Patchwork Republic traces the rhetorical career of “we the people” in Congressional debates.

Maarten Zwiers, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Groningen. He specializes in rural and southern studies and is the author of Senator James Eastland: Mississippi’s Jim Crow Democrat (LSU Press, 2015).