The anti-intellectual presidency : the decline of presidential rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush /
Elvin Lim draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents' ability to communicate with the public.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Elvin Lim draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents' ability to communicate with the public. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 178 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199851843 0199851840 019534264X 9780195342642 |