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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781279003321

Titolo

Green talk in the White House : the rhetorical Presidency encounters ecology / / edited by Tarla Rai Peterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station : , : Texas A&M University Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-299-05279-7

1-60344-635-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Presidential rhetoric series

Altri autori (Persone)

PetersonTarla Rai

Disciplina

333.72

Soggetti

Environmental policy - United States

Environmentalism - Political aspects - United States

Presidents - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Environmental rhetoric and the new frontier -- Environmental rhetoric and political pragmatism -- The environmental President who wasn't -- Presidential rhetoric and environmental governance for the twenty-first century.

Sommario/riassunto

This book gathers an array of approaches to studying environmental rhetoric and the presidency, covering a range of administrations and a diversity of viewpoints on how the concept of the "rhetorical presidency" may be modified in this policy area.