The popular television drama The West Wing provides a fictional window into US presidential politics and, according to the authors (professors of communications at U. of Maryland-College Park),
reflects the ideological history and contestations of US nationalism prevalent in US history and politics. Analyzing the program's first 80 episodes (or President Josiah Bartlet's "first
term"), they discuss how it presents a romantic vision of the US presidency, discuss the gendered and raced norms of the nationalism it presents, and explore its depictions of militarism.
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