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Overview
With the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and American presidency began to undergo many profound changes. Chief among those was a radical evolution in the interaction of the president with the general public. The ten essays of this volume focus on that evolution and offer thought-provoking analyses concerning the role of presidential rhetoric in passing policy, generating support, and promoting public discourse. Beyond the Rhetorical Presidency offers scholars with an interest in speech communication, political science, and history a volume that reexamines the place and significance of presidential rhetoric.Synopsis
Since the time of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the American presidency has changed in profound ways. Chief among these has been the way presidents interact with the general public. The ten chapters of this volume, by presidential scholars Jeffrey Tulis, Glen E. Thurow, Thomas W. Benson, Roderick P. Hart, Thomas Goodnight, and George Edwards, among others, offer thought-provoking analyses concerning the role of presidential rhetoric in passing policy, generating support, and promoting public discourse.
About the Editor:
Martin J. Medhurst is a distinguished professor of rhetoric and communication at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Booknews
Ten essays consider the significance of presidential rhetoric in generating policy and public support, especially in a technological age. The contributing communication and government scholars reflect on private virtue and public duty, a "desktop" democracy and its effect on presidential rhetoric, and present practical criticism evaluating case studies such as Vice President Lyndon Johnson's telephone conversation about civil rights with Theodore Sorensen, Reagan's rhetorical policy toward Central America, and public views concerning Hillary Rodham Clinton. Jeffrey Tulis, who coined the concept of the rhetorical presidency in 1981, offers his ideas of how the concept has changed with the political arena. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)