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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.

Cowboy Presidents

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    A Hardback by David Alexander Smith

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
      Publication Date: 1/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780806168487, 978-0806168487
      ISBN10: 080616848X
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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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