Abstract
PREFACE ix INTRODUCTION: Executive Disease: Presidential Power and Literary Imagination 1 CHAPTER ONE: Masters of Their Constitution: Gertrude Stein and the Promise of Progressive Leadership 33 CHAPTER TWO: Governable Beasts: Hurston, Roth, and the New Deal 67 CHAPTER THREE: The Myth of the Public Interest: Pluralism and Presidentialism in the Fifties 100 CHAPTER FOUR: Come Home, America: Vietnam and the End of the Progressive Presidency 139 EPILOGUE: Philip Roth and the Waning and Waxing of Political Time 178 Notes 197 Index 243
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