E-book
Before the rhetorical presidency
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- ISBN: 9781603440714
- ISBN: 1603440712
- ISBN: 9781603446266 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1603446265 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (x, 356 p.) : ill. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2008.
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| General Note: | OldControl:muse9781603446266 Includes index. Multi-User. Multi-User |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Was there a nineteenth century rhetorical presidency? a debate revisited / Martin J. Medhurst -- Part I. Alternative perspectives on the rhetorical presidency. Talking without speaking, and other curiosities / Mel Laracey ; On the forms of rhetorical leadership / Jeffrey K. Tulis ; Present at the founding: the rhetorical presidency in historical perspective / Stephen E. Lucas -- Part II. Nineteenth-century rhetorical presidencies. Little magic: Martin van Buren and the politics of gender / Susan Zaeske ; John Tyler and the rhetoric of the accidental presidency / David Zarefsky ; James Knox Polk: the first imperial president? / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell ; Franklin Pierce and the exuberant hauteur of an age of extremes: a love song for America in six movements / Stephen John Hartnett ; James Buchanan: romancing the Union / Robert E. Terrill ; Andrew Johnson and the politics of character / Stephen Howard Browne ; Resolute commander for just peace: the rhetoric of President Ulysses S. Grant / George R. Goethals ; The challenges of reunification: Rutherford B. Hayes on the close race and the racial divide / Amy R. Slagell ; The problem with public memory: Benjamin Harrison confronts the "southern question" / Kirt H. Wilson ; Grover Cleveland and the non-rhetorical presidency / Michael Leff ; William McKinley and the emergence of the modern rhetorical presidency / William D. Harpine -- Afterword: Questioning the rhetorical presidency construct / M.J Medhurst. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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