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Presidents and Place

America's Favorite Sons

Edited by Thomas Cobb and Olga Maria May Akroyd - Contributions by Olga Maria May Akroyd; Ilias Ben Mna; D. Jason Berggren; Wesley R. Bishop; Scott E. Buchanan; Thomas Cobb; Frederick David Gordon; Sam Edwards; Keith J. Muchowski; Lisa Payne Ossian; Elizabeth Rees; Jeff Smith; Laura Álvarez Trigo and Giuliano Santangeli Valenzani

Presidents and Place: America's Favorite Sons highlights the interrelationship between America's leading political icons and various facets of space and place, including places of birth and death as well as regional allegiances, among others. The chapters examine the legacy of relationships between presidents and place in a variety of social and cultural forms, ranging from famous political campaigns to television series to developments in tourism. Beginning with the political iconography of New York's Federal Hall in early eighteenth-century America and ending with a focus on the Republican Party's electoral relationship with the South, the interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse nature of the chapters reveals that place has more than a biographical significance in relation to US presidents.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 302 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-66691-372-9 • Hardback • March 2023 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-66691-373-6 • eBook • March 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Subjects: Social Science / Human Geography, Political Science / American Government / Executive Branch, Social Science / General

Thomas J. Cobb is lecturer in International Relations at Coventry University.

Olga Akroyd is honorary researcher at University of Kent.

Chapter One - Gotham Remembers: New York Presidential Commemoration from the Confederation Congress Through the Virginia Dynasty

Keith J. Muchowski

Chapter Two - “A Land of Pharaoh and His Plagues”: John Randolph of Roanoke’s Mission to Russia and the Jacksonian Presidency

Olga Akroyd

Chapter Three - “Just Folks?”: Jack Downing, The West Wing, and the Yankee Struggle for “Real America”

Jeff Smith

Chapter Four - William Henry Harrison and the Making of the Politically Imagined American Midwest

Wesley Bishop

Chapter Five - Andrew Johnson: Reassessing the Political Impact of the Tailor from Tennessee

Frederick David Gordon

Chapter Six - A President’s ‘Pilgrimage of the Heart’: Place, Ancestry, and Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 Visit to Carlisle

Sam Edwards

Chapter Seven - “Dear Mr. President: Herbert Hoover & Harry Truman’s Unique Friendship, 1945-1964”

Lisa Payne Ossian

Chapter Eight - “JFK in Dallas: Collective Memory, Media Events, and Don DeLillo’s Libra”

Laura Álvarez Trigo

Chapter Nine - How Barry Goldwater Merged Arizona’s “Rugged Landscape” with “Rugged Individualism”

Ilias Ben Mna

Chapter Ten - “I’m a Southerner”: The Regional Pride and Burden of President Jimmy Carter

D. Jason Berggren

Chapter Eleven - Plains and Simple: The Influences of Plains, Georgia, and Small-Town Nostalgia on Jimmy Carter’s Public Persona

Elizabeth Rees

Chapter Twelve - The Carter Mystique: The Effects of Jimmy Carter's Election on Tourism in Georgia and the South

Giuliano Santangeli Valenzani

Chapter Thirteen - Tennessee Over Texas: How Appalachia’s Shift to Republican Primacy Predated Trump’s Presidency

Thomas J. Cobb

Chapter Fourteen - The American South and Presidential Politics, 1964-2020

Scott E. Buchanan

From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, Thomas Cobb and Olga Akroyd and a cast of contributors consider the places that shaped presidents and other key figures in American history. These compelling essays remind us that historical settings are more than a backdrop.


— Michael Patrick Cullinane, Dickinson State University


President and Place: America’s Favorite Sons offers a new way to study the presidency. It consists of 14 essays that span the two hundred and thirty plus years of the American Presidency. It features notable and obscure presidential figures like Andrew Johnson, who may have been out of place politically after the Lincoln assassination, yet the essay offers a fresh analysis of Johnson’s impact at the state and local level. Further the essay comparison of Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman provides an unusual presidential lens to pre and post New Deal policy. This collection of presidential essays will be enjoyed by both scholars, students and anyone who seeks to learn about the presidency from a more subtle perspective.


— John David Briley, East Tennessee State University


Presidents and Place

America's Favorite Sons

Cover Image
Hardback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • Presidents and Place: America's Favorite Sons highlights the interrelationship between America's leading political icons and various facets of space and place, including places of birth and death as well as regional allegiances, among others. The chapters examine the legacy of relationships between presidents and place in a variety of social and cultural forms, ranging from famous political campaigns to television series to developments in tourism. Beginning with the political iconography of New York's Federal Hall in early eighteenth-century America and ending with a focus on the Republican Party's electoral relationship with the South, the interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse nature of the chapters reveals that place has more than a biographical significance in relation to US presidents.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 302 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
    978-1-66691-372-9 • Hardback • March 2023 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
    978-1-66691-373-6 • eBook • March 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Subjects: Social Science / Human Geography, Political Science / American Government / Executive Branch, Social Science / General
Author
Author
  • Thomas J. Cobb is lecturer in International Relations at Coventry University.

    Olga Akroyd is honorary researcher at University of Kent.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Chapter One - Gotham Remembers: New York Presidential Commemoration from the Confederation Congress Through the Virginia Dynasty

    Keith J. Muchowski

    Chapter Two - “A Land of Pharaoh and His Plagues”: John Randolph of Roanoke’s Mission to Russia and the Jacksonian Presidency

    Olga Akroyd

    Chapter Three - “Just Folks?”: Jack Downing, The West Wing, and the Yankee Struggle for “Real America”

    Jeff Smith

    Chapter Four - William Henry Harrison and the Making of the Politically Imagined American Midwest

    Wesley Bishop

    Chapter Five - Andrew Johnson: Reassessing the Political Impact of the Tailor from Tennessee

    Frederick David Gordon

    Chapter Six - A President’s ‘Pilgrimage of the Heart’: Place, Ancestry, and Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 Visit to Carlisle

    Sam Edwards

    Chapter Seven - “Dear Mr. President: Herbert Hoover & Harry Truman’s Unique Friendship, 1945-1964”

    Lisa Payne Ossian

    Chapter Eight - “JFK in Dallas: Collective Memory, Media Events, and Don DeLillo’s Libra”

    Laura Álvarez Trigo

    Chapter Nine - How Barry Goldwater Merged Arizona’s “Rugged Landscape” with “Rugged Individualism”

    Ilias Ben Mna

    Chapter Ten - “I’m a Southerner”: The Regional Pride and Burden of President Jimmy Carter

    D. Jason Berggren

    Chapter Eleven - Plains and Simple: The Influences of Plains, Georgia, and Small-Town Nostalgia on Jimmy Carter’s Public Persona

    Elizabeth Rees

    Chapter Twelve - The Carter Mystique: The Effects of Jimmy Carter's Election on Tourism in Georgia and the South

    Giuliano Santangeli Valenzani

    Chapter Thirteen - Tennessee Over Texas: How Appalachia’s Shift to Republican Primacy Predated Trump’s Presidency

    Thomas J. Cobb

    Chapter Fourteen - The American South and Presidential Politics, 1964-2020

    Scott E. Buchanan

Reviews
Reviews
  • From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, Thomas Cobb and Olga Akroyd and a cast of contributors consider the places that shaped presidents and other key figures in American history. These compelling essays remind us that historical settings are more than a backdrop.


    — Michael Patrick Cullinane, Dickinson State University


    President and Place: America’s Favorite Sons offers a new way to study the presidency. It consists of 14 essays that span the two hundred and thirty plus years of the American Presidency. It features notable and obscure presidential figures like Andrew Johnson, who may have been out of place politically after the Lincoln assassination, yet the essay offers a fresh analysis of Johnson’s impact at the state and local level. Further the essay comparison of Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman provides an unusual presidential lens to pre and post New Deal policy. This collection of presidential essays will be enjoyed by both scholars, students and anyone who seeks to learn about the presidency from a more subtle perspective.


    — John David Briley, East Tennessee State University


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