Presidential Voices
Subtitle: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush
By: Allan Metcalf.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780618443741
Subjects: Political oratory -- United States; Presidents -- United States -- Language; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States; Communication in politics -- United States; Presidents -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The original; title: The great orators; title: The great communicators; title: Speechwriters; title: The down to earth president; title: The blunderers; title: Presidents as neologists; title: Presidential accents; title: Acting presidents : movies and television; title: How to talk like a president; title: Profiles of the presidents.