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FDR in American memory : Roosevelt and the making of an icon / Sara Polak.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421442846
  • 1421442841
Other title:
  • Roosevelt and the making of an icon
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: FDR in American memory.DDC classification:
  • 973.917092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • E806 .P625 2021
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Contents:
"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.

"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?

"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.

Sara Polak is an assistant professor of American studies at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

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