The presidency and rhetorical leadership / edited by Leroy G. Dorsey.

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Superior document:Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 6
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Year of Publication:2002
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 6.
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Physical Description:vi, 270 p.
Notes:"The chapters appearing in this volume were first presented at the fifth annual conference on presidential rhetoric held at Texas A&M University's Presidential Conference Center, March 4-7, 1999"--P. [vii].
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The president as a rhetorical leader / Leroy G. Dorsey
  • The presidency has always been a place for rhetorical leadership / David Zarefsky
  • George Washington and the rhetoric of presidential leadership / Stephen E. Lucas
  • Classical virtue and presidential fame : John Adams, leadership, and the Franco-American crisis / James M. Farrell
  • Jefferson vs. Napoleon : the limits of rhetoric / Lawrence S. Kaplan
  • Politics as performance art : the body English of Theodore Roosevelt / H.W. Brands
  • Presidential leadership and national identity : Woodrow Wilson and the meaning of America / James R. Andrews
  • FDR at Gettysburg : the New Deal and the rhetoric of presidential leadership / Thomas W. Benson
  • The hidden hand vs. the bully pulpit : the layered political rhetoric of President Eisenhower / Meena Bose and Fred I. Greenstein
  • Ronald Reagan and the American dream : a study in rhetoric out of time / G. Thomas Goodnight
  • Cunning, rhetoric, and the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton / John M. Murphy
  • Afterword : rhetorical leadership and presidential performance / Leroy G. Dorsey.