With Reverence and Contempt: How Americans Think About Their President (Interpreting American Politics) - Softcover

Langston, Thomas S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801855101 ISBN 13: 9780801855108

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

What's wrong with the American presidency? Why is the world's oldest surviving democracy headed by a leader who lives and acts like a king? And why is that same leader so often held in low esteem by those who elected him? In this survey of presidential history, the author examines two centuries of unrealistic expectations, false hopes and willful misunderstandings that lie at the heart of America's "dysfunctional relationship" with its president. Langston argues that each president becomes an icon, a stylized image of Americans' faith in themselves and in their country. Providing an investigation of how the game of presidential symbol-making is played, the author reveals how Americans' wishful thinking is encouraged and how even the best presidents are invited to deceive the public. The work concludes with a series of recommendations, including legislative changes aimed at improving the relationship between the president and the public by cutting the president's symbolic value down to size.

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Thomas S. Langston is associate professor of political science at Tulane University. He is the author of 'Ideologues and Presidents: From the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0801855101
• ISBN 13: 9780801855108
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
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