Introduction: from Cicero to Snooki: how culture shapes our presidents
The founders: reading for wisdom and virtue
Theater and the common man in the nineteenth century
Lincoln: reading as a tool for advancement
Theodore Roosevelt: cuture and destiny
FDR: president as cultural output
Music and the quest for cool
All the presidents' movies: finding archetypal leadership in film
The "vast wasteland": presidents and television
Reading and the modern president
Obama, full-fledged product of American pop culture