Your Presidents
Who would be your fifth face on Mount Rushmore, if it was even possible ? Or, "I will turn your face to alabaster..."--Sting Presidents form the highs and lows of your life as backstory; Your world is colored by the president that was in office when you first entered real adulthood, got your first good job, your own house or apartment, began raising a family, and voted in elections. But your zeitgeist is different from zeitgeists of other generations. Before then, presidents are people who are on the news and nothing more--save for an interest you had in history classes in junior high. They were people your parents were intensely concerned with. You hadn't lived long enough for there to be any backstory to set the narrative context. This reminds me of the 1997 film The Sweet Hereafter . The opening scene is of a school bus crash, but the film wasn't about that--it was contextual foreshadowing. If you hadn't read the Russell Banks novel, you would be thinking tha
