Presidential speechwriting from the New Deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond /
"The reliance of individual presidents on their speechwriters has varied with the rhetorical skill of the officeholder himself, his managerial style, and his personal attitude toward public speaking. The individual chapters here (two by former White House speech-writers) give fascinating insigh...
| Other Authors: | Ritter, Kurt W., Medhurst, Martin J. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2003]
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| Physical Description: |
x, 231 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: |
Presidential rhetoric series ;
no. 7. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: |
Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Presidential speechwriting : ten myths that plague modern scholarship /
- Martin J. Medhurst
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt : rhetorical politics and political rhetorics /
- Halford Ryan
- Harry S. Truman : from whistle-stops to the halls of congress /
- Diana B. Carlin
- Dwight D. Eisenhower : the 1954 state of the union address as a case study in presidential speechwriting /
- Charles J.G. Griffin
- John F. Kennedy : presidential speechwriting as rhetorical collaboration /
- Theodore O. Windt, Jr.
- Lyndon B. Johnson : from private deliberations to public declaration : the making of LBJ's renunciation speech /
- Moya Ann Ball
- Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford : lessons on speechwriting /
- Craig R. Smith
- Jimmy Carter : the language of politics and the practice of integrity /
- John H. Patton
- Ronald Reagan's bully pulpit : creating a rhetoric of values /
- William K. Muir, Jr.
- Enduring issues in presidential speechwriting /
- Martin J. Medhurst.