A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government

by Sean McCann

There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century literature's deep fascination with the modern presidency and with the ideas about the relationship between state power and democracy that underwrote the rise of presidential authority.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691136955
• ISBN13: 9780691136950
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"