The Prospect of Presidential RhetoricJames Arnt Aune Culminating a decade of conferences that have explored presidential speech, The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric assesses progress and suggests directions for both the practice of presidential speech and its study. In Part One, following an analytic review of the field by Martin Medhurst, contributors address the state of the art in their own areas of expertise. Roderick P. Hart then summarizes their work in the course of his rebuttal of an argument made by political scientist George Edwards: that presidential rhetoric lacks political impact. Part Two of the volume consists of the forward-looking reports of six task forces, comprising more than forty scholars, charged with outlining the likely future course of presidential rhetoric, as well as the major questions scholars should ask about it and the tools at their disposal. The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric will serve as a pivotal work for students and scholars of public discourse and the presidency who seek to understand the shifting landscape of American political leadership. |
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... Republicans. This symposium would continue to be a quadrennial feature in QJS until 1976, when it was picked up by Speech Monographs for the 1976 election cycle. It was then discontinued altogether in 1980. But by instituting the ...
... Republicans. This symposium would continue to be a quadrennial feature in QJS until 1976, when it was picked up by Speech Monographs for the 1976 election cycle. It was then discontinued altogether in 1980. But by instituting the ...
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... Republican Party and the Christian Right. The other is the language of Becoming, of change as we strive to understand the injunction that the arc of the universe is long but that it bends toward justice, of the revolutionary Jesus, of ...
... Republican Party and the Christian Right. The other is the language of Becoming, of change as we strive to understand the injunction that the arc of the universe is long but that it bends toward justice, of the revolutionary Jesus, of ...
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... Republicans and appointed members who were committed to lower interest rates. By 1986 Volcker found himself outvoted for the first time, and he threatened to resign. Baker knew that a resignation would rattle the financial markets, and ...
... Republicans and appointed members who were committed to lower interest rates. By 1986 Volcker found himself outvoted for the first time, and he threatened to resign. Baker knew that a resignation would rattle the financial markets, and ...
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... Republican convention, were reluctant to do. Darman went on the offensive, contending on Meet the Press that Greenspan risked throwing the economy into a recession (Greenspan famously yelled “What!?” at the television set). Darman then ...
... Republican convention, were reluctant to do. Darman went on the offensive, contending on Meet the Press that Greenspan risked throwing the economy into a recession (Greenspan famously yelled “What!?” at the television set). Darman then ...
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... Republican opposition to Clinton's deficit reduction plan, it successfully passed Congress by a narrow margin, with Gore breaking a tie in the Senate. The only Republican support had come from Greenspan.34 Clinton gladly reappointed ...
... Republican opposition to Clinton's deficit reduction plan, it successfully passed Congress by a narrow margin, with Gore breaking a tie in the Senate. The only Republican support had come from Greenspan.34 Clinton gladly reappointed ...
Contents
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Chapter 4 The Return of the Imperial Presidency | 69 |
Chapter 5 To Produce A Judicious Choice | 99 |
Chapter 6 The Rhetorical Presidency and the Myth of the American Dream | 130 |
Chapter 7 Of Allies and Enemies | 160 |
Chapter 8 Revising the Cold War Narrative to Encompass Terrorist Threats | 182 |
Chapter 11 Report of the National Task Force on the Presidency and Deliberative Democracy | 251 |
Chapter 12 Report of the National Task Force on Presidential Communication to Congress | 272 |
Chapter 13 Report of the National Task Force on the Presidency and Public Opinion | 293 |
Chapter 14 Report of the National Task Force on the Ethical Responsibilities of the Presidential Rhetoric | 317 |
Chapter 15 Report of the National Task Force on the Theory and Practice of the Rhetorical Presidency | 340 |
Chapter 16 Report of the National Task Force on Presidential Rhetoric in Times of Crisis | 355 |
Contributors | 379 |
Index | 381 |
Chapter 9 George W Bush Public Faith and the Culture of War over SameSex Marriage | 209 |
Chapter 10 Thinking Harder About Presidential Discourse | 238 |
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