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U.S. presidents as orators :

0313032815

9780313032813

0313290598

9780313290596

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U.S. presidents as orators :

[Book]

a bio-critical sourcebook /

edited by Halford Ryan.

Westport, Conn. :

Greenwood Press,

1995.

1 online resource (xviii, 390 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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.

U.S. presidents as orators.

English language-- United States-- Rhetoric.

Political oratory-- United States.

Presidents-- United States-- Language.

Rhetoric-- Political aspects-- United States.

Discours politique-- États-Unis.

Éloquence politique-- États-Unis.

Présidents-- États-Unis-- Langage.

English language-- Rhetoric.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Public Speaking.

Political oratory.

Presidents-- Language.

Rhetoric-- Political aspects.

United States.

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LAN-- 026000

Ryan, Halford Ross.

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