Preface

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction. The Executive Disease: Presidential Power and Literary Imagination 1
5. Chapter One. Masters of Their Constitution: Gertrude Stein and the Promise of Progressive Leadership 33
6. Chapter Two. Governable Beasts: Hurston, Roth, and the New Deal 67
7. Chapter Three. The Myth of the Public Interest: Pluralism and Presidentialism in the Fifties 100
8. Chapter Four. Come Home, America: Vietnam And The End Of The Progressive Presidency 139
9. Epilogue. Philip Roth And The Waning And Waxing Of Political Time 178
10. Notes 197
11. Index 243