Cowboy Presidents: The Frontier Myth and U.S. Politics since 1900

by David Alexander Smith

Book Overview

For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. 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? This is the conundrum at the heart of Cowboy Presidents, which explores the deployment and consequent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080616848X
• ISBN13: 9780806168487
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"