xiii, 391 p. : 23 cm

Includes bibliogr. references (p. 349-376) and index

Imagining a president: George Washington and his fictional predecessors -- Seeing double: clowns, carnival, and satire in the Antebellum years -- Deep, yet transparent: myth, mystery, and "common sense" in post-Civil War presidential fictions -- A simple, honest man: presidential character in the fictions of the 1930s and 1940s -- The human element: presidential strength, weakness, and difference in the 1960s and 1970s -- Who am I? Presidents and their "issues" in fictions of the 1990s -- Fictitious times: imagining presidents at the turn of the millennium

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