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Cowboy Presidents: The Frontier Myth and U.S. Politics in the Twentieth Century David Alexander Smith
Cowboy Presidents: The Frontier Myth and U.S. Politics in the Twentieth Century
David Alexander Smith
Explores the deployment and transformation of the frontier myth by four US presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush. Behind the shape-shifting of this myth, David Smith finds major events that have made aspects of the ‘Old West’ frontier useful for promoting different political ideologies and agendas.
288 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 11, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9780806168487 |
| Publishers | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 236 × 24 mm · 576 g |
| Language | English |