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Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour
Rhetoric, Public Opinion, and the League of Nations
Inbunden, 2006
413 kr
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On September 3, 1919, Woodrow Wilson embarked upon one of the most ambitious and controversial speaking tours in the history of American politics: a grueling 8,000-mile, twenty-two-day tour across the Midwest and Far West in support of the League of Nations. Historians still debate Wilson's …
FDR's First Fireside Chat
Public Confidence and the Banking Crisis
Av Amos Kiewe
Häftad, 2007
190 kr
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I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States... Thus began not only the first of Franklin Roosevelt's celebrated radio addresses, collectively called Fireside Chats, but also the birth of the media era of the rhetorical presidency. Humorist Will Rogers later said that the …
Reagan at Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg
Häftad, 2007
210 kr
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Ronald Reagan's inability to sway the American public and press with his speeches at the former site of the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and, later, at the U.S. Air Force base in Bitburg, Germany, has been marked by many as the first major failure of the Great Communicator's second …
Great Silent Majority
Nixon's 1969 Speech on Vietnamization
Inbunden, 2014
412 kr
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In his televised and widely watched speech to the nation on November 3, 1969, Pres. Richard M. Nixon introduced a phrase—“silent majority”—and a policy—Vietnamization of the war effort—that echo down to the present day. Nixon’s appearance on this night framed the terms in which much of the …
Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation, and the 1908 Governors’ Conference
Inbunden, 2016
358 kr
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Among Theodore Roosevelt’s many initiatives, oneof the most important accomplishments was hiseffort to convince the nation that conserving theenvironment was crucial to its continued existence.For much of his presidency—often withoutcongressional assent—he acted to protect wildlifeand the natural …
Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace
Av Ira Chernus
Inbunden, 2002
355 kr
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On July 16, 1945, the United States set off the world's first atomic explosion. In his ""Atoms for Peace"" speech of 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower captured the tensions_and the ironies_of the atomic age. While nuclear devastation threatened all nations, Eisenhower believed only nuclear …
Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace
Av Ira Chernus
Häftad, 2002
167 kr
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On July 16, 1945, the United States set off the world's first atomic explosion. In his ""Atoms for Peace"" speech of 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower captured the tensions_and the ironies_of the atomic age. While nuclear devastation threatened all nations, Eisenhower believed only nuclear …
Jefferson's Call for Nationhood
The First Inaugural Address
Inbunden, 2003
366 kr
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Widely celebrated in its own time, Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address commands the regard of Americans from across the political spectrum. Delivered as the young nation found itself embroiled in bitter partisan struggles, the speech has been halled as the Sermon on the Mount of good …
Jefferson's Call for Nationhood
The First Inaugural Address
Häftad, 2003
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Widely celebrated in its own time, Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address commands the regard of Americans from across the political spectrum. Delivered as the young nation found itself embroiled in bitter partisan struggles, the speech has been halled as the Sermon on the Mount of good …
Writing JFK
Presidential Rhetoric and the Press in the Bay of Pigs Crisis
Inbunden, 2003
355 kr
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Following the dramatic Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, President John F. Kennedy moved to repair the damage the invasion had done to his image and to his relations with the press. Thomas W. Benson examines two speeches and a press conference held by JFK in the days after the crisis, shedding light on …
Writing JFK
Presidential Rhetoric and the Press in the Bay of Pigs Crisis
Häftad, 2003
167 kr
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Following the dramatic Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, President John F. Kennedy moved to repair the damage the invasion had done to his image and to his relations with the press. Thomas W. Benson examines two speeches and a press conference held by JFK in the days after the crisis, shedding light on …
LBJ's American Promise
The 1965 Voting Rights Address
Inbunden, 2006
355 kr
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Though Lyndon Johnson developed a reputation as a rough-hewn, arm-twisting deal-maker with a drawl, at a crucial moment in history he delivered an address to Congress that moved Martin Luther King Jr. to tears and earned praise from the media as the best presidential speech in American history. …
LBJ's American Promise
The 1965 Voting Rights Address
Häftad, 2006
195 kr
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Though Lyndon Johnson developed a reputation as a rough-hewn, arm-twisting deal-maker with a drawl, at a crucial moment in history he delivered an address to Congress that moved Martin Luther King Jr. to tears and earned praise from the media as the best presidential speech in American history. …
FDR's First Fireside Chat
Public Confidence and the Banking Crisis
Av Amos Kiewe
Inbunden, 2007
373 kr
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I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States... Thus began not only the first of Franklin Roosevelt's celebrated radio addresses, collectively called Fireside Chats, but also the birth of the media era of the rhetorical presidency. Humorist Will Rogers later said that the …
Reagan at Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg
Inbunden, 2007
413 kr
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Ronald Reagan's inability to sway the American public and press with his speeches at the former site of the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and, later, at the U.S. Air Force base in Bitburg, Germany, has been marked by many as the first major failure of the Great Communicator's second …
Truman's Whistle-stop Campaign
Häftad, 2008
210 kr
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Faced with the likely loss of the 1948 presidential elections, Harry S. Truman decided to do what he did best: talk straight. When Truman boarded the train to head west in June 1948, he and his campaign advisors decided to shift from prepared text to extemporaneous stump speeches. The ""new …
Reagan at Westminster
Foreshadowing the End of the Cold War
Av Robert C. Rowland, John M. Jones
Inbunden, 2010
470 kr
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President Ronald Reagan’s famous address to the Houses of Parliament is now considered—in its spirit if not in its actual words—to be the initial enunciation of his “Evil Empire” stance. In this important volume by two experienced rhetorical scholars, Robert C. Rowland and John M. Jones offer a …
Reagan at Westminster
Foreshadowing the End of the Cold War
Av Robert C. Rowland, John M. Jones
Häftad, 2010
224 kr
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President Ronald Reagan’s famous address to the Houses of Parliament is now considered—in its spirit if not in its actual words—to be the initial enunciation of his “Evil Empire” stance. In this important volume by two experienced rhetorical scholars, Robert C. Rowland and John M. Jones offer a …
Great Silent Majority
Nixon's 1969 Speech on Vietnamization
Häftad, 2014
224 kr
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In his televised and widely watched speech to the nation on November 3, 1969, Pres. Richard M. Nixon introduced a phrase—“silent majority”—and a policy—Vietnamization of the war effort—that echo down to the present day. Nixon’s appearance on this night framed the terms in which much of the …
