Before the rhetorical presidency
By: edited by Martin J. Medhurst.
Contributors: Medhurst, Martin J.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Presidential rhetoric series -- no. 19
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781603440714
Subjects: Presidents -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Presidents -- United States -- Language; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Description: x, 356 pages : 25 cm
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Was there a nineteenth century rhetorical presidency? a debate revisited / Martin J. Medhurst; title: Part I. Alternative perspectives on the rhetorical presidency. Talking without speaking, and other curiosities / Mel Laracey ; On the forms of rhetorical leadership / Jeffrey K. Tulis ; Present at the founding: the rhetorical presidency in historical perspective / Stephen E. Lucas; title: Part II. Nineteenth-century rhetorical presidencies. Little magic: Martin van Buren and the politics of gender / Susan Zaeske ; John Tyler and the rhetoric of the accidental presidency / David Zarefsky ; James Knox Polk: the first imperial president? / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell ; Franklin Pierce and the exuberant hauteur of an age of extremes: a love song for America in six movements / Stephen John Hartnett ; James Buchanan: romancing the Union / Robert E. Terrill ; Andrew Johnson and the politics of character / Stephen Howard Browne ; Resolute commander for just peace: the rhetoric of President Ulysses S. Grant / George R. Goethals ; The challenges of reunification: Rutherford B. Hayes on the close race and the racial divide / Amy R. Slagell ; The problem with public memory: Benjamin Harrison confronts the "southern question" / Kirt H. Wilson ; Grover Cleveland and the non-rhetorical presidency / Michael Leff ; William McKinley and the emergence of the modern rhetorical presidency / William D. Harpine; title: Afterword: Questioning the rhetorical presidency construct / M.J Medhurst.