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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780156003321

Titolo

The presidency and rhetorical leadership [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Leroy G. Dorsey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-60344-443-2

1-58544-952-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Presidential rhetoric series ; ; no. 6

Altri autori (Persone)

DorseyLeroy G. <1959->

Disciplina

808.5/1/0883512

Soggetti

Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States

English language - United States - Rhetoric

Political oratory - United States

Presidents - United States - Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The chapters appearing in this volume were first presented at the fifth annual conference on presidential rhetoric held at Texas A&M University's Presidential Conference Center, March 4-7, 1999"--P. [vii].

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : The president as a rhetorical leader / Leroy G. Dorsey -- The presidency has always been a place for rhetorical leadership / David Zarefsky -- George Washington and the rhetoric of presidential leadership / Stephen E. Lucas -- Classical virtue and presidential fame : John Adams, leadership, and the Franco-American crisis / James M. Farrell -- Jefferson vs. Napoleon : the limits of rhetoric / Lawrence S. Kaplan -- Politics as performance art : the body English of Theodore Roosevelt / H.W. Brands -- Presidential leadership and national identity : Woodrow Wilson and the meaning of America / James R. Andrews -- FDR at Gettysburg : the New Deal and the rhetoric of presidential leadership / Thomas W. Benson -- The hidden hand vs. the bully pulpit : the layered political rhetoric of President Eisenhower / Meena Bose and Fred I. Greenstein  -- Ronald Reagan and the American dream : a study in rhetoric out of time / G. Thomas Goodnight -- Cunning, rhetoric, and the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton / John M. Murphy -- Afterword : rhetorical leadership and presidential performance / Leroy G. Dorsey.