Cowboy Presidents
Cowboy Presidents For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. This is the conundrum at the heart of Cowboy Presidents, which explores the…
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Cowboy Presidents
For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. This is the conundrum at the heart of Cowboy Presidents, which explores the deployment and consequent transformation of the frontier myth by four U.S. How else to explain its having taken two such different guises in the twentieth century-the progressive, forward-looking politics of Rough Rider president Teddy Roosevelt and the conservative, old-fashioned character and Cold War politics of Ronald Reagan?
Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and George W. presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Bush.Behind the shape-shifting of this myth, historian David A.
Smith finds major events in American and world history that have made various aspects of the "Old West" frontier more relevant, and more useful, for promoting radically different political ideologies and agendas. And