The presidency and rhetorical leadership
By: edited by Leroy G. Dorsey.
Contributors: Dorsey, Leroy G., 1959-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Presidential rhetoric series ;; no. 6
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States.; English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.; Political oratory -- United States.; Presidents -- United States -- Language.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The chapters appearing in this volume were first presented at the fifth annual conference on presidential rhetoric held at Texas A&M University's Presidential Conference Center, March 4-7, 1999"--P. [vii].
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The President as a rhetorical Leader / Leroy G. Dorsey; title: The Presidency has always been a place for rhetorical Leadership / David Zarefsky; title: George Washington and the rhetoric of presidential leadership / Stephen E. Lucas; title: Classical virtue and presidential fame : John Adams, leadership, and the Franco-American crisis / James M. Farrell; title: Jefferson vs. Napoleon : the limits of rhetoric / Lawrence S. Kaplan; title: Politics as performance art : the body english of Theodore Roosevelt / H.W. Brands; title: Presidential leadership and national identity : Woodrow Wilson and the meaning of America / James R. Andrews; title: FDR at Gettysburg : the New Deal and the rhetoric of presidential leadership / Thomas W. Benson; title: The hidden hand vs. the bully pulpit : the layered political rhetoric of President Eisenhower / Meena Bose and Fred I. Greenstein; title: Ronald Reagan and the American dream : a study in rhetoric out of time / G. Thomas Goodnight; title: Cunning, rhetoric, and the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton / John M. Murphy; title: Afterword : rhetorical leadership and presidential performance / Leroy G. Dorsey.