عنوان

U.S. presidents as orators :

(Number (ISBN

0313032815

(Number (ISBN

9780313032813

Erroneous ISBN

0313290598

Erroneous ISBN

9780313290596

Number

b717270

Title Proper

U.S. presidents as orators :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a bio-critical sourcebook /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Halford Ryan.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Westport, Conn. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Greenwood Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1995.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xviii, 390 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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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Text of Note

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.

Title

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.

7

LAN-- 026000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Ryan, Halford Ross.

Date of Transaction

20201208093717.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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