Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: politics of quality U.S. tv: all the president's men and a few good women
  • Politics of quality primetime tv: network politics and broadcasting context
  • Politics of storytelling and the tv auteur: authorship, performance, and narrative
  • Politics of the televisual form: aesthetics and sounds of power
  • "Modern history is another name for television": representing historical relevancy and cultural memory
  • Conclusion: "we had it good there for a while": The west wing legacy.