“Sifting for Truth Among a Plethora of Images”: Presidents, The Presidency, Hollywood, and America

DPI-115: The American Presidency is a course at the Harvard Kennedy School that analyzes the development and modern practice of presidential leadership in the United States by examining the political resources and constraints influencing the president's ability to provide leadership in the U.S. political system.

As a student in the class, I elected to write a final paper on filmic representations of the American presidency and how both fictional and nonfictional presidential representations have influence the office and American public consciousness.