Title: Acting presidents
Description: Although films about the presidency have been a popular subject for analysis, there is no equivalent literature about plays that portray chief executives. This book fills that gap by examining in detail about 50 plays depicting historical, fictional and even musical presidents. It explains how, as the public's trust in government has declined, the heroic presidents of the first half of the twentieth century have been replaced on stage by such antiheroes as Nixon and Harding.
Subjects: Presidents in literature, History and criticism, Theater, American drama, American Political plays, American drama, history and criticism, 20th century, Political plays, history and criticism, Theater, political aspects, Political aspects, DRAMA, American
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century