Author: Halford R. RyanPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
First systematic critique of the rhetoric of 21 presidents focusing on the nexus of oratory and politics.
U.S. Presidents as Orators
Author: Halford R. RyanPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
First systematic critique of the rhetoric of 21 presidents focusing on the nexus of oratory and politics.
U.S. Presidents as Orators
Author: Halford R. RyanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313032815
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This first systematic critique on the rhetoric of 21 presidents shows how political constraints shaped rhetoric and how oratory shaped politics. An introduction places American public address in the context of classical rhetorical practices and theory and sets the stage for the bio-critical essays about presidents ranging from Washington to Clinton. Experts analyze the style and use of language, important speeches and their impact, and their ethical ramifications. Each essay on a president also keys major speeches to authoritative texts and offers a chronology and bibliography of primary and secondary sources. For students, teachers, and professionals in American public address, political communication, and the presidency.
The Leading Orators of Twenty-five Campaigns
Author: William C. RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orators
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Republican Orators from Eisenhower to Trump
Author: Andrew S. CrinesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319685457
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This is the first thorough and systematic interrogation of Republican Party oratory and rhetoric that examines a series of leading figures in American conservative politics. It asks: How do leading Republican Party figures communicate with and influence their audiences?; What makes a successful speech, and why do some speeches fail to resonate? Most importantly, it also investigates why orators use different styles of communication with different audiences, such as the Senate, party conventions, public meetings, and through the media. By doing so it shines important new light into conservative politics from the era of Eisenhower to the more brutal politics of Donald Trump. The book will appeal to students and scholars across the fields of US politics, contemporary US history, and rhetoric and communication studies.
Author in Chief
Author: Craig FehrmanPublisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1476786399
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
“One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years.” —Thomas Mallon, The Wall Street Journal “Fun and fascinating…It’s witty, charming, and fantastically learned. I loved it.” —Rick Perlstein Based on a decade of research and reporting, Author in Chief tells the story of America’s presidents as authors—and offers a delightful new window into the public and private lives of our highest leaders. Most Americans are familiar with Abraham Lincoln’s famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet few can name the work that helped him win the presidency: his published collection of speeches entitled Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln labored in secret to get his book ready for the 1860 election, tracking down newspaper transcripts, editing them carefully for fairness, and hunting for a printer who would meet his specifications. Political Debates sold fifty thousand copies—the rough equivalent of half a million books in today’s market—and it reveals something about Lincoln’s presidential ambitions. But it also reveals something about his heart and mind. When voters asked about his beliefs, Lincoln liked to point them to his book. In Craig Fehrman’s groundbreaking work of history, Author in Chief, the story of America’s presidents and their books opens a rich new window into presidential biography. From volumes lost to history—Calvin Coolidge’s Autobiography, which was one of the most widely discussed titles of 1929—to ones we know and love—Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father, which was very nearly never published—Fehrman unearths countless insights about the presidents through their literary works. Presidential books have made an enormous impact on American history, catapulting their authors to the national stage and even turning key elections. Beginning with Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, the first presidential book to influence a campaign, and John Adams’s Autobiography, the first score-settling presidential memoir, Author in Chief draws on newly uncovered information—including never-before-published letters from Andrew Jackson, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan—to cast fresh light on the private drives and self-doubts that fueled our nation’s leaders. We see Teddy Roosevelt as a vulnerable first-time author, struggling to write the book that would become a classic of American history. We see Reagan painstakingly revising Where’s the Rest of Me?, a forgotten memoir in which he sharpened his sunny political image. We see Donald Trump negotiating the deal for The Art of the Deal, the volume that made him synonymous with business savvy. Alongside each of these authors, we also glimpse the everyday Americans who read them. Combining the narrative felicity of a journalist with the rigorous scholarship of a historian, Fehrman delivers a feast for history lovers, book lovers, and everybody curious about a behind-the-scenes look at our presidents.
American Speeches Vol. 1 (LOA #166)
Author: Edward L. WidmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
A historian and former presidential speechwriter presents an unprecedented two-volume collection of the greatest speeches in American history.
President's Speech
Author: C. Edwin ViladePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762790245
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A readable analysis of 25 momentous presidential speeches that provides context and understanding of events and history, illustrated with facsimiles of supporting documents, notes, and drafts that together formed the final speech. The book examines the pivotal, often familiar, and potent speeches and addresses of dozens of U.S. presidents to reveal the varied and often conflicting points of view that shaped the final famous words. We see in many examples, the actual edited final speech, showing how remarkable and forceful language was crafted, sometimes last minute, into the enduring words made famous by their timing.
Great Presidential Wit
Author: Robert J. DolePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743203925
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The former senator and presidential candidate collects bipartisan presidential humor from famous, and not-so-famous, chief executives, from Washington to Clinton.
The Leading Orators of Twenty-Five Campaigns, From the First Presidential Canvass to the Present Time
Author: William C. RobertsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333367305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Excerpt from The Leading Orators of Twenty-Five Campaigns, From the First Presidential Canvass to the Present Time: Portraits, Reminiscences, and Biographical Sketches of America's Distinguished Political Speakers; A Concise History of Political Parties in the United States, Together With a Chronological Presentation of Presidential and Vice-Presidential Nominees Whig and Tory then became the respective party designations, after factions which bore those appellations in England. The former wished to remain colonists with guaranteed rights, while the latter were willing to continue that relation under such dispensation as the Crown saw fit to extend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Leading Orators of Twenty-Five Campaigns, from the First Presidential Canvass to the Present Time
Author: William C. RobertsPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355857228
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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