Olga Maria May Akroyd & Thomas Cobb 
Presidents and Place 
America’s Favorite Sons

Presidents and Place: Americas Favorite Sons highlights the interrelationship between Americas leading political icons and various facets of space and place, including places of birth and death as well as regional allegiances, among others. The chapters examine the legacy of relationships between presidents and place in a variety of social and cultural forms, ranging from famous political campaigns to television series to developments in tourism. Beginning with the political iconography of New Yorks Federal Hall in early eighteenth-century America and ending with a focus on the Republican Partys electoral relationship with the South, the interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse nature of the chapters reveals that place has more than a biographical significance in relation to US presidents.