Modern Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric

AMOS KIEWE is an Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at Syracuse University. He is the co-author, with Davis W. Houck, of two books, Shining City On a Hill: Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric (Praeger, 1991), and Actor, Ideologue, Politican: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan (Greenwood Press, 1993).

• Series Foreword by Robert E. Denton, Jr.PrefaceIntroduction by Amos KieweDeclaring a National Emergency: Truman's Rhetorical Crisis and the Great Debate of 1951 by Robert L. IvieEisenhower, Little Rock, and the Rhetoric of Crisis by Martin J. MedhurstCrisis as Pretext: John F. Kennedy and the Rhetorical Construction of the Berlin Crisis by Enrico Pucci, Jr.Lyndon B. Johnson's Crisis Rhetoric after the Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Securing Legitimacy and Leadership by Kurt RitterRichard Nixon and the Personalization of Crisis by Carole Blair and Davis W. HouckThe Coalitional Crisis of the Ford Presidency: The Pardons Reconsidered by Craig Allen Smith and Kathy B. SmithNarrative Character in Presidential Crisis Rhetoric: Jimmy Carter and the Iranian Hostage Crisis by Charles J.G. GriffinCreating His Own Constraint: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Crisis by Greg DickinsonFrom a Rhetorical Trap to Capitulation and Obviation: The Crisis Rhetoric of George Bush's "Read My Lips: No New Taxes" by Amos KieweThe Battle for the Past: George Bush and the Gulf Crisis by Mark A. PollockBibliographyIndex