Title A pinnacle of feeling : American literature and presidential government / Sean McCann.

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages).
Series	20/21
	20/21 (Princeton, N.J.)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-241) and index.
Summary	There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century literature's deep fascination with the modern presidency and with the ideas about the relationship between state power and democracy that underwrote the rise of presidential authority. Sean McCann challenges prevailing critical interpretations through revelatory new readings of major writers, including Richard Wright, Gertrude Stein, Henry Roth, Zora Neale.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Contents; Preface; Introduction: "The Executive Disease": Presidential Power and Literary Imagination; Chapter One: Masters of Their Constitution: Gertrude Stein and the Promise of Progressive Leadership; Chapter Two: Governable Beasts: Hurston, Roth, and the New Deal; Chapter Three: The Myth of the Public Interest: Pluralism and Presidentialism in the Fifties; Chapter Four: Come Home, America: Vietnam and the End of the Progressive Presidency; Epilogue: Philip Roth and the Waning and Waxing of Political Time; Notes; Index.
Subject	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Executive power in literature.
	Presidents in literature.
	Executive power -- Philosophy.
	Authors, American -- 20th century -- Political and social views.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
	American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
	Authors, American -- Political and social views. (OCoLC)fst00821784
	Executive power in literature. (OCoLC)fst01903173
	Politics and literature. (OCoLC)fst01069960
	Presidents in literature. (OCoLC)fst01904346
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Presidentschap.
	Macht.
	Democratie.
	Bellettrie.
	Amerikaans.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: McCann, Sean, 1962- Pinnacle of feeling. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008 0691136955 9780691136950 (DLC) 2008012782 (OCoLC)214322788
Standard No.	9786612158261
ISBN	9781400828906 (electronic bk.)
	1400828902 (electronic bk.)

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