Usable Pasts
Published by mr.president January 7th, 2008 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTIAL GHOSTS, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, JOHN F. KENNEDY, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, POLITICAL HUMOR 
Masks of Stateliness 
Matthew Yglesias sums up the current political search for Daddy’s old clothes:
“The Republican hagiography of Ronald Reagan is embarrassing but the JFK business is even more detached from reality.”
