| Description |
x, 413 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : presidential rhetoric and national identity -- Ch. 1. Land, citizenship, and national identity in Jackson's America -- Ch. 2. Temperance, character, and race in the Antebellum United States -- Ch. 3. The business of government during the democratic interregnum of Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889 -- Ch. 4. Establishing a transcendent international order under Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 -- Ch. 5. Balancing the nation : brokering FDR's economic union, 1932-1940 -- Ch. 6. Citizenship contained : domesticating God, family, and country during the Eisenhower years -- Ch. 7. Managing diversity in a fragmented polity : the post-cold war world of George H. W. Bush -- Conclusion : choosing our national identity |
| Summary |
"As Mary Stuckey observes, presidents embrace, articulate, and reinvigorate our sense of national identity. They define who Americans are - often by declaring who they aren't. In this book, she shows how presidential speech has served to broaden the American political community over the past two centuries while at the same time excluding others." "Ambitious and sweeping, Stuckey's work documents the tactics that have naturalized and legitimated inclusion and exclusion, tracing the progress of groups such as women and African Americans from political invisibility to partial visibility and eventual inclusion. She also shows how the terms of inclusion have varied with changing political winds, helping us understand how depictions of the powerless by the powerful reflect and influence the status of various groups."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Group identity -- United States -- History.
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Political culture -- United States -- History.
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National characteristics, American.
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Presidents -- United States -- History.
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| LC no. |
2004013592 |
| ISBN |
0700613498 cloth alkaline paper |
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