U.S. presidents as orators a bio-critical sourcebook
Title:
U.S. presidents as orators a bio-critical sourcebook
Author:
Ryan, Halford Ross.
ISBN:
9780313032813
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 390 p.)
Contents:
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 Blinton / Stephen C. Wood and Jean M. DeWitt.
Abstract:
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 s.
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US presidents as orators.
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