美國的總統學與《白宮夜未眠》

研究美國歷任的總統，姑且稱之為"美國的總統學"，它可用政治、歷史、傳記、小說等來談論。2019.11.1 看到的浪漫劇的引言：

Mark Zuckerberg"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say: You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the land of the free."
- Aaron Sorkin, The American President

《白宮夜未眠》（英語：The American President，中國大陸譯《美國總統》，香港譯《白宮奇緣》）是一部1995年的美國浪漫愛情電影，由艾倫·索金編劇，羅伯·萊納執導，麥克·道格拉斯、安奈特·貝寧、馬丁·西恩、米高·J·福克斯和理察·德萊弗斯主演。影片虛構了一位美國總統安德魯·薛柏德（Andrew Shepherd，麥克·道格拉斯飾）在任上喪妻後試圖追求一位美麗的環境保護說客悉妮·艾倫·韋德（Sydney Ellen Wade，安奈特·貝寧飾）的故事。

作曲家馬克·施艾曼因本片獲得了第68屆學院獎原創配樂獎提名^[1][2]，影片同時也獲得了第53屆金球獎最佳影片（音樂劇/喜劇類）、導演、編劇、電影男主角（音樂劇/喜劇類）和電影女主角（音樂劇/喜劇類）5項提名^[3][4]。2002年美國影藝協會評選AFI百年電影史百大愛情電影，本片名列第75位^[5]。