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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460843303321

Titolo

The bully pulpit, presidential speeches, and the shaping of public policy / / edited by Jeffrey S. Ashley and Marla J. Jarmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-0196-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Disciplina

352.23/80973

Soggetti

Presidents - United States

Presidents - United States - History

Communication in politics - United States

Policy sciences

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Theodore Roosevelt; 2 William Howard Taft and the Conservation of the Republican Party in 1912; 3 Woodrow Wilson; 4 Warren G. Harding; 5 Calvin Coolidge; 6 Herbert Clark Hoover; 7 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Inauguration of the New Deal; 8 Harry S. Truman; 9 Dwight Eisenhower; 10 John F. Kennedy; 11 Lyndon Baines Johnson; 12 Richard Nixon and American Indian Policy; 13 Gerald Ford; 14 Jimmy Carter; 15 Ronald Reagan and American Drug Policy; 16 George H. W. Bush and the Persian Gulf War; 17 Bill Clinton; 18 George W. Bush; 19 Barack Obama and Hate Crime Legislation

BibliographyIndex; About the Editors and Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The Bully Pulpit, Presidential Speeches, and the Shaping of Public Policy explores how presidents use speeches to shape and influence public policy. Coming from a wide range of disciplines, each chapter in this edited collection examines a selected speech delivered by every president from Roosevelt through Barack Obama to show how language has been instrumental in directing policy.