American Presidency in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Alexandra Lawrie is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Political Fiction from Beyond the Beltway1. ‘We are the Legacy Generation’: A. M. Homes’s The Unfolding and 1950s Nostalgia in the Age of Obama2. ‘The White House, They Got That Integrated’: The Kennedys and Civil Rights in Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle3. The ‘Haunted’ President: Conformity and Surveillance in Nathan Hill’s The Nix4. ‘Paralysis and Stagnation and Drift’: Late-1970s Malaise in Tom Barbash and Jack Livings5. ‘The Lost Boys of Privilege’: Clintonian Triangulation and the End of History in Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School6. The ‘New, Weird Shape’ of the World: Populist Aesthetics Post-2016 election in Dana Spiotta’s WaywardConclusion: Trump and the NovelWorks Cited