Defining Americans

Defining Americans
Author: Mary E. Stuckey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Ranging broadly from Andrew Jackson to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Stuckey demonstrates how presidents accomplish the dual enactment of inclusion and exclusion through their rhetorical and political choices. Our early leaders were preoccupied with balancing the growing nation; later presidents were concerned with the nature and definitions of citizenship. By examining the political speeches of presidents exemplifying distinctly different circumstances, she presents a series of snapshots which, when taken together, reveal both the continuity and the changes in our national self-understanding.

Presidential Speechwriting

Presidential Speechwriting
Author: Kurt Ritter
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1603445749

Annotation. The chapters in this book (two by former White House speechwriters) give insight into the process of presidential speechwriting, from Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration to Ronald Reagan's.

The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2022-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt" (Radio Addresses to the American People Broadcast Between 1933 and 1944) by Franklin D. Roosevelt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric

The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric
Author: James Arnt Aune
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 1603444610

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.

Presidents in Culture

Presidents in Culture
Author: David Ryfe
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780820474564

Whether writing from the perspective of rhetoric or political science, scholars of presidential communication often assume that the ultimate meaning of presidential rhetoric lies in whether it achieves policy success. In this book, David Michael Ryfe argues that although presidential rhetoric has many meanings, one of the most important is how it rhetorically constructs the practice of presidential communication itself. Drawing upon an examination of presidential rhetoric in the twentieth century - from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton - Ryfe surveys the shifting meaning of presidential communication. In doing so, he reveals that the so-called public or rhetorical presidency is not one fixed entity, but rather a continuously negotiated discursive construct.

FDR and Fear Itself

FDR and Fear Itself
Author: Davis W. Houck
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781585441983

"Houck then flashes back to the final year of the 1932 presidential campaign to show how Raymond Moley, the principal architect of the address, came to be trusted by Roosevelt to craft this important speech. Houck traces the relationships of Moley with Roosevelt and Roosevelt's influential confidante, Louis Howe, who was responsible for important changes in the speech's later drafts, including the famous aphorism."--BOOK JACKET.

American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era, 1932-1945

American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era, 1932-1945
Author: Thomas W. Benson
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: New Deal, 1933-1939
ISBN: 9780870137679

The "New Deal era" is hard to define with precision - in time or in ideology. This book contains essays that focus on the prewar period, with glimpses forward to the rhetoric of the approach to and engagement in World War II.

Great Speeches

Great Speeches
Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1999-05-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0486408949

Includes 27 masterly speeches: First Inaugural Address, message to Congress after Pearl Harbor ("a day that will live in infamy"), Fireside Chats, Fourth Inaugural Address, many more. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda

Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda
Author: Mary E. Stuckey
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781603440745

Though Jimmy Carter is widely viewed as one of the least effective modern presidents, the human rights agenda for which his administration is known remains high in the national awareness and continues to provide important justifications for presidential and congressional action a quarter-century later. The very elements of Carter's communications on human rights that engendered obstacles to the formation of a coherent and consistent policy--the term's vagueness, the difficulties of applying it, its uneasy relationship with national security interests, and the divergence between Democratic and Republican understandings--allowed "human rights" to become a useful rubric for presidents, both Democratic and Republican, who followed Carter. Stuckey discusses the key elements of how human rights came to the nation's attention.

The Rhetorical Presidency

The Rhetorical Presidency
Author: Jeffrey K. Tulis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1400888360

Modern presidents regularly appeal over the heads of Congress to the people at large to generate support for public policies. The Rhetorical Presidency makes the case that this development, born at the outset of the twentieth century, is the product of conscious political choices that fundamentally transformed the presidency and the meaning of American governance. Now with a new foreword by Russell Muirhead and a new afterword by the author, this landmark work probes political pathologies and analyzes the dilemmas of presidential statecraft. Extending a tradition of American political writing that begins with The Federalist and continues with Woodrow Wilson’s Congressional Government, The Rhetorical Presidency remains a pivotal work in its field.