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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955944503321

Autore

Jamieson Kathleen Hall

Titolo

Eloquence in an electronic age : the transformation of political speechmaking / / Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988

ISBN

9786610524709

9780197723968

0197723969

9780199728893

0199728895

9781280524707

1280524707

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

808.5/1

Soggetti

Public speaking

Eloquence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography: p. 269-292 and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""1. Educating the Eloquent Speaker""; ""2. Incapacitating the Eloquent Speaker""; ""3. The Flame of Oratory, The Fireside Chat""; ""4. The ""Effeminate"" Style""; ""5. The Memorable Phrase, The Memorable Picture""; ""6. Dramatizing and Storytelling""; ""7. Conversation, and Self-Revelation""; ""8. The Divorce Between Speech and Thought""; ""9. Mating the Best of the Old and the New""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Kathleen Hall Jamieson - author of the award-winning 'Packaging the Presidency' - offers a perceptive and often disturbing account of the transformation of political speechmaking. She addresses such fundamental issues about public speaking as what talents and techniques differentiate eloquent speakers from non-eloquent speakers. She also analyzes the speeches of modern presidents from Truman through Reagan and of other politicians from Daniel Webster to Mario Cuomo. Ranging from the classical orations of Cicero to Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, this lively, well-documented



volume contains a wealth of insight into public speaking, contemporary characteristics of eloquence, and the future of political discourse in America.