Before the rhetorical presidency /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Medhurst, Martin J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2008]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 19.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Was there a nineteenth century rhetorical presidency? : a debate revisited / Martin J. Medhurst
  • Part I. Alternative perspectives on the rhetorical presidency. Talking without speaking, and other curiosities / Mel Laracey ; On the forms of rhetorical leadership / Jeffrey K. Tulis ; Present at the founding : the rhetorical presidency in historical perspective / Stephen E. Lucas
  • Part II. Nineteenth-century rhetorical presidencies. Little magic : Martin van Buren and the politics of gender / Susan Zaeske ; John Tyler and the rhetoric of the accidental presidency / David Zarefsky ; James Knox Polk : the first imperial president? / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell ; Franklin Pierce and the exuberant hauteur of an age of extremes : a love song for America in six movements / Stephen John Hartnett ; James Buchanan : romancing the Union / Robert E. Terrill ; Andrew Johnson and the politics of character / Stephen Howard Browne ; Resolute commander for just peace : the rhetoric of Ulysses S. Grant / George R. Goethals ; The challenges of reunification : Rutherford B. Hayes on the close race and the racial divide / Amy R. Slagell ; The problem with public memory : Benjamin Harrison confronts the "southern question" / Kirt H. Wilson ; Grover Cleveland and the nonrhetorical presidency / Michael Leff ; William McKinley and the emergence of the modern rhetorical presidency / William D. Harpine
  • Afterword: Questioning the rhetorical presidency construct / Martin J. Medhurst.