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The rhetorical presidency /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tulis, Jeffrey (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Edition:First Princeton Classics Edition.
Series:Princeton classics.
Subjects:
Presidents > United States > History.
Political oratory > United States > History.
English language > United States > Rhetoric.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: The rhetorical presidency
  • 2. The old way: Founding and forms
  • Constitutional Principles
  • Official rhetoric
  • 3. The old way: Developed and expressed
  • "Unofficial" presidential rhetoric
  • The great exception: Andrew Johnson
  • 4. The middle way: Statesmanship as moderation
  • Theodore Roosevelt and the Hepburn Act
  • Conditions of success
  • The old way revised
  • 5. The New Way: Leadership as Interpretation
  • Reinterpreting the constitutional principles: Woodrow Wilson's statecraft
  • New standards, new forms
  • Comparing rhetoric: Old and new
  • 6. Limits of Leadership
  • The problem of credibility: Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations campaign
  • The breakdown of deliberation: Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty
  • 7. Dilemmas of Governance
  • Crisis politics and normal politics
  • Campaigns, wordsmiths, media
  • Ronald Reagan, the great communicator
  • The rhetorical prerogative.