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| Foreword | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| George Washington, The Crossing, and Revolutionary Leadership | 19 | |
| The Adams Chronicles: Domesticating the American Presidency | 30 | |
| Jefferson in Love: The Framer Framed | 50 | |
| Abraham Lincoln in John Ford's The Iron Horse: Both Trumpets and Silences | 62 | |
| Redeeming Lincoln, Redeeming the South: Representations of Abraham Lincoln in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Historical Scholarship | 76 | |
| Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders: A Century of Leadership in Film | 96 | |
| Wilson in Technicolor: An Appreciation | 115 | |
| A Juxtaposition of Conflicting Images: Hubert H. Humphrey and the Television Coverage of Chicago, 1968 | 125 | |
| Motion Picture Presidents of the 1930s: Factual and Fictional Leaders for a Time of Crisis | 143 | |
| Gabriel Over the White House (1933): William Randolph Hearst's Fascist Solution for the Great Depression | 159 | |
| Populism, Pragmatism, and Political Reinvention: The Presidential Motif in the Films of Frank Capra | 180 | |
| The Absent President: Mr. Smith, The Candidate, and Bulworth | 193 | |
| Who's In Charge Here? Technology and the Presidency in Fail-Safe (1964) and Colossus (1970) | 206 | |
| The 100 Million$ Men: Presidential Action/Adventure Heroes of Independence Day (1996) and Air Force One (1997) | 223 | |
| A Man of His Word: Aaron Sorkin's American Presidents | 234 | |
| Hollywood's Presidents, 1944-1996: The Primacy of Character | 251 | |
| Richard Nixon as Dick (1999) and the Comedic Treatment of the Presidency | 263 | |
| "Biological Business-as-Usual": The Beast in Oliver Stone's Nixon | 275 | |
| Myth and Reality in the Hollywood Campaign Film: Primary Colors (1998) and The War Room (1994) | 288 | |
| Bestowing Knighthood: The Visual Aspects of Bill Clinton's Camelot Legacy | 309 | |
| Hollywood, Impersonation, and Presidential Celebrity in the 1990s | 320 | |
| Television Satire and the Presidency: The Case of Saturday Night Live | 333 | |
| The Transformed Presidency: The Real Presidency and Hollywood's Reel Presidency | 351 | |
| A Filmography for Images of American Presidents in Film | 383 | |
| Contributors | 403 | |
| Index | 411 |
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Ken Jensen
reviewed Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History on December 25, 2009
Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History
A collection of interesting essays about movie and television depictions of the American presidency, both real presidents and fictional presidents, from the late 1800s to the early 2000s. Also includes interesting analyses of the office of the President, and how it has changed over time.
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