Cowboy presidents : the frontier myth and U.S. politics since 1900 /
Explores the deployment of the frontier myth by four presidents, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, and how a series of tragic events caused the myth's shift from liberalism to conservatism during the 1960s and 70s.
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The frontier myth
- Theodore Roosevelt : the first cowboy president's progressive frontiers
- Lyndon Baines Johnson's "showdowns for progress"
- Myth in a quagmire : Vietnam and LBJ's second presidency
- The hinge : Ronald Reagan and the conservative resurgence of the frontier myth
- Reagan's policy frontiers at home and abroad
- George W. Bush : the War on Terror and the frontier myth.