CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 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 -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.