Presidential Rhetoric Series – serie
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FDR's Body Politics
The Rhetoric of Disability
Inbunden, 2003
381 kr
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Franklin Roosevelt instinctively understood that a politician of his era who was unable to control his own body would be perceived as unable to control the body politic. He therefore took great care to hide his polio-induced lameness both visually and verbally. In FDR's Body Politics. Davis W. …
Presidential Speechwriting
From the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution and Beyond
Av Kurt Ritter, Martin J. Medhurst
Häftad, 2004
220 kr
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The rise of the media presidency through radio and television broadcasts has heightened the importance of presidential speeches in determining the U.S. president's effectiveness and popularity. Not surprisingly, this development has also witnessed the rise of professional speechwriters. The …
Beyond the Rhetorical Presidency
Häftad, 2004
277 kr
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Since the time of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the American presidency has changed in profound ways. Chief among these has been the way presidents interact with the general public. The ten chapters of this volume, by presidential scholars Jeffrey Tulis, Glen E. Thurow, Thomas W. Benson, …
Rhetorical Presidency of George H. W. Bush
Inbunden, 2006
485 kr
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For George H. W. Bush, the distinction between campaigning (""politics"") and governing (""principles"") was crucial. Once in office, he abandoned his campaign mode and with it the rhetorical strategies that had brought electoral success. Not recognizing the importance of rhetoric to policy …
Mobilizing the Home Front
War Bonds and Domestic Propaganda
Inbunden, 2006
413 kr
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During World War II, the home front offered unprecedented levels of moral, financial, and labor support for the war effort. This was no accident. Through the U.S. Treasury Department's war bond drives, Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration strategically cultivated national morale by creating the …
Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric
Av Martin J. Medhurst, James Arnt Aune m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
331 kr
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Culminating a decade of conferences that have explored presidential speech, ""The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric"" assesses progress and suggests directions for both the practice of presidential speech and its study. In Part One, following an analytic review of the field by Martin Medhurst, …
Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents
Häftad, 2007
248 kr
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Although sometimes decried by pundits, George W. Bush's use of moral and religious rhetoric is far from unique in the American presidency. In ""The Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents"", Colleen J. Shogan astutely analyzes the president's role as the nation's moral spokesman and demonstrates that …
You, the People
American National Identity in Presidential Rhetoric
Häftad, 2011
248 kr
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As we ask anew in these troubled times what it means to be an American, You, the People provides perspective by casting its eye over the answers given by past U.S. presidents in their addresses to the public. Who is an American, and who is not? Could any questions be more timely?
North Korea, Nuclear Brinkmanship, and the Oval Office
Inbunden, 2026
747 kr
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Only nine countries have possessed nuclear weapons in the roughly eighty years since the US first introduced the atomic bomb to the world. Since then, a dangerous game of "will they, won't they?" has been played between these nations. The most infamous standoff is the Cold War between the US and …
Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership
Häftad, 2010
287 kr
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Provides studies of how words have served - or failed to serve - American presidents. This book contains chapters which examine George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.
Modern Presidency and Civil Rights
Rhetoric on Race from Roosevelt to Nixon
Inbunden, 2001
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An exploration of the pattern of presidential rhetoric on race in the modern era. It examines four episodes of American presidential speech: Truman in June 1947; Eisenhower's national address on 24th September 1957; Kennedy in June 1963; and Lyndon B. Johnson in March 1965.
Rhetoric As Currency
Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression
Inbunden, 2001
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In this text, Davis W. Houck uses the historical context of the Great Depression in America to explore the relationship of rhetoric to the economy and economic recovery. This study allows him to understand rhetoric as a process rather than as a series of isolated, discrete products.
Meanings of War and Peace
Häftad, 2001
218 kr
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In this volume, Francis A. Beer (joined by colleagues as co-authors of some chapters) examines the cognitive, behavioural and linguistic dimensions of war and peace. Language, he shows, is important because it mediates between thought and action. It expresses beliefs about war and peace and affects …
Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical Statesman
Inbunden, 2004
529 kr
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This study of academician Woodrow Wilson's political philosophy of the oratorical statesman traces the classical influences on him as a young man, the development of his full-blown scholarly philosophy of oratory, and his use of rhetoric as president of the USA.
Green Talk in the White House
The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology
Inbunden, 2004
570 kr
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Issues of wilderness and wetlands preservation, clean air and clean water, and the sustainable use of natural resources have figured prominently in American political debate of the twentieth century. Presidents since Theodore Roosevelt have addressed these issues, rhetorically in their public …
Green Talk in the White House
The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology
Häftad, 2004
274 kr
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Issues of wilderness and wetlands preservation, clean air and clean water, and the sustainable use of natural resources have figured prominently in American political debate of the twentieth century. Presidents since Theodore Roosevelt have addressed these issues, rhetorically in their public …
Civil Rights Rhetoric and the American Presidency
Av Enrique D. Rigsby, James Arnt Aune m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
457 kr
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For a century and a half the words of Presidents have framed, expressed, and sometimes challenged the civil rights policies of America. The eleven essays in this book examine the ways in which American presidents and their administrations have defined the meaning of civil rights from Rutherford B. …
Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents
Inbunden, 2006
514 kr
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Although sometimes decried by pundits, George W. Bush's use of moral and religious rhetoric is far from unique in the American presidency. ""The Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents"" astutely analyzes the president's role as the nation's moral spokesman. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative …
Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour
Rhetoric, Public Opinion, and the League of Nations
Häftad, 2006
210 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 …
Before the Rhetorical Presidency
Inbunden, 2008
586 kr
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Since its identification in 1981, the rhetorical presidency has drawn both defenders and critics. Chief among those critical of the practice is political theorist Jeffrey K. Tulis, whose 1987 book, ""The Rhetorical Presidency"", helped popularize the construct and set forth a sustained analysis of …
