"I am a juggler" : FDR's public image-making -- The collective rhetorical production of FDR, 1932-1945 -- Negotiating FDR remembrance -- The New Deal depoliticized in cultural memory -- FDR's disability in cultural memory -- Understanding FDR as a cultural icon -- Conclusion: A Rooseveltian century?
Summary
"This book analyzes Franklin D. Roosevelt's construction as a cultural icon in American memory from two perspectives. First, the author examines the historical leader who intentionally shaped his own public image. Second, she looks at portrayals and negotiations of FDR as an icon in cultural memory from the vantage point of the early twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Sara Polak is an assistant professor of American studies at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society
