Presidents In Culture
Subtitle: The Meaning Of Presidential Communication (Frontiers in Political Communication)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: May 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780820474564
Subjects: Communication; Journalism; United States - General; General; Government - General; Political Science; History - U.S; Communication in politics; History; Language; Presidents; United States; Politics/International Relations
Description: "In this book, David Michael Ryfe argues that although presidential rhetoric has many meanings, one of the most important is how it rhetorically constructs the practice of presidential communication itself. Drawing upon an examination of presidential rhetoric in the twentieth century - from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton - Ryfe surveys the shifting meaning of presidential communication. In doing so, he reveals that the so-called public or rhetorical presidency is not one fixed entity, but rather a continuously negotiated discursive construct."--Jacket.