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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"presidential libraries"”.
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The Bully Pulpit on Display: How Presidential Libraries Present Presidential History
Scholars have portrayed presidential libraries and museums as either whitewashed and propagandist temples to presidents or highly valuable institutions of American democracy. However, the literature lacks a discussion of the curatorial process for creating the contested exhibits and the choices …
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The Presidential Library System: A Quiescent Policy Subsystem
This study examines the Presidential Library System, an agency within the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), as an example of a policy subsystem. A policy subsystem may be defined as an informal political coalition of individuals from different parts of a formal policy structure …
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The archive on the hill : the Presidential Library and the architecture of American history
Presidential libraries are not really about presidents. Rather, presidential libraries define publics through the transformation of American history into images and ideas. The presidential library is a uniquely American institution where national history plays out in a mitigated exchange between …
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Public-Private Partnerships in the Presidential Library System
… support foundations, administers 13 individual presidential libraries that make up the Presidential Library System. These privately constructed, publicly supported archives not only preserve official presidential records, but through their museum displays, also offer visitors a glimpse into the …
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Ford, Carter and Cambodia: US foreign policy and the Khmer Rouge
… declassified material from the Ford and Carter Presidential Libraries, supplemented by the material from the National Archives and Library of Congress, and relevant newspapers and periodicals. It demonstrates that the limitations placed upon US foreign policy by their experience in the Vietnam …
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Britain, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Malaysian-Indonesian confrontation, 1961-1965.
… materials were gathered from the JFK and LBJ presidential libraries, the US national archives and the State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States series. In Australasia, research was primarily conducted at Australian Archives, Canberra and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and …
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THE ECONOMICS DISCIPLINE AND PROFESSION AND U.S. POWER IN CHILE (1930s-1990s)
… Drawing on extensive archival research from U.S. presidential libraries, foundations, universities, and other institutions and oral history, this work provides deeper insights into the transnational dynamics that shaped the transformation of economics from an emergent academic field in the 1930s …
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Honor, not sainthood : interpreting scandals and personal flaws in presidential homes, museums and libraries.
… by staff who operate the homes, museums and libraries which tell the story of the presidents. Sometimes the stories that are told at these places have left out personal struggles caused by scandals and personal flaws that were experienced by the presidents. This thesis looks at the question …