The presidents we imagine: two centuries of White House fictions on the page, on the stage, onscreen, and online

Abstract

In this thesis-driven monograph, Jeff Smith argues that the American president embodies the nation and personifies its citizens. As a result, the president’s changing profile, in fact and fiction, sheds light on the histories of the nation and its people. Claiming that works of fiction anticipate actual people and events, Jeff Smith focuses on presidential fictions, which he defines as “works in various media along with other acts of imagination, in which American presidents and the presiden...

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