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U.S. presidents as orators : a bio-critical sourcebook

This first systematic critique on the rhetoric of 21 presidents shows how political constraints shaped rhetoric and how oratory shaped politics. An introduction places American public address in the context of classical rhetorical practices and theory and sets the stage for the bio-critical essays about presidents ranging from Washington to Clinton. Experts analyze the style and use of language, important speeches and their impact, and their ethical ramifications. Each essay on a president also keys major speeches to authoritative texts and offers a chronology and bibliography of primary and secondary sources. For students, teachers, and professionals in American public address, political communication, and the presidency. -- Amazon.com
Print Book, English, 1995
Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1995
Aufsatzsammlung
xviii, 390 pages ; 25 cm
9780313290596, 0313290598
31514805
George Washington / Stephen E. Lucas and Susan Zaeske
John Adams / James M. Farrell
Thomas Jefferson / Daniel Ross Chandler
James Madison / Lois J. Einhorn
John Quincy Adams / Sean Patrick O'Rourke
Andrew Jackson / Thomas M. Lessl
Abraham Lincoln / Lois J. Einhorn
Theodore Roosevelt / Robert V. Friedenberg
Woodrow Wilson / J. Michael Hogan and James R. Andrews
Herbert Clark Hoover / Carl R. Burgchardt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Halford Ryan
Dwight D. Eisenhower / Martin J. Medhurst
John Fitzgerald Kenndy / Vito N. Silvestri
Lyndon Baines Johnson / Kenneth S. Zagacki
Richard Milhous Nixon / Hal W. Bochin
Gerald R. Ford / Craig Allen Smith
Jimmy Carter / Don F. Hahn and Halford Ryan
Ronald Reagan / Kurt Ritter
George Herbert Walker Bush / Craig R. Smith
Bill Clinton / Stephen C. Wood and Jean M. DeWitt