Hope for America

Hope for America: Performers, Politics, and Pop Culture.” Bob Hope Gallery of American Entertainment, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Washington, D.C. http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/hopeforamerica/. Permanent exhibition, opened June 11, 2010. 1,300 sq. ft. Alan Gevinson, exhibition curator; William Jacobs, chief, Interpretive Programs Office; Betsy Nahum-Miller, exhibition director; Kimberli Curry, exhibition director; Deborah Durbeck, production officer. Anyone who has followed American politics over the past decade has marked the ascent of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert who, in their guise as newscasters and pundits, have satirized politicians and parties, delivering devastating critiques of media misinformation, corporate corruption, and lying office holders. Recently, Colbert, on his mock campaign for president of the United States of South Carolina, polled better than some actual politicians vying for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. This bit of current events resonates with the stories in the Library of Congress’s exhibition “Hope for America: Performers, Politics, and Pop

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