Michael J. Blouin: The Presidents of American Fiction: Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination [2022] paperback COOK But even in the midst

But even in the midst of war

this book vividly evokes the warmth

at least a third of us are introverts

she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine

challenging the omnipotent heroes of childhood and questioning what constitutes heroism today

Michael J. Blouin: The Presidents of American Fiction: Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination [2022] paperback COOK But even in the midstThe Presidents of American Fiction brings together American literature, history, and political science to explore the most influential fictionalized accounts of the presidency from the early 19th century to the time of Trump. Of late, popular understandings of the presidency are being radically re written consider, for example, the distinctive myths that accompanied the ascent of the Obama and Trump administrations and many readers of all stripes are