(Source: University of Virginia Press)
The University
of Virginia Press is publishing a book on how the President of the US can shape
history.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Presidents shape
not only the course of history but also how Americans remember and retell that
history. From the Oval Office they instruct us what to respect and what to
reject in our past. They regale us with stories about who we are as a people,
and tell us whom in the pantheon of greats we should revere and whom we should
revile. The president of the United States, in short, is not just the nation’s
chief legislator, the head of a political party, or the commander in chief of
the armed forces, but also, crucially, the nation’s historian in chief.
In this engaging
and insightful volume, Seth Cotlar and Richard Ellis bring together top
historians and political scientists to explore how eleven American presidents
deployed their power to shape the nation’s collective memory and its political
future. Contending that the nation’s historians in chief should be evaluated
not only on the basis of how effective they are in persuading others, Historian
in Chief argues they should also be judged on the veracity of the history they
tell.
ABOUT THE
EDITORS
Seth Cotlar,
Professor of History at Willamette University, is the author of Tom Paine’s
America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic
(Virginia).
Richard J.
Ellis, Mark O. Hatfield Professor of Politics at Willamette University, is the
author of The Development of the American Presidency, among other books.
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