Presidential speechwriting [electronic resource] : from the New Deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond /

Presidential speechwriting from the New Deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond / [electronic resource] : edited by Kurt Ritter and Martin J. Medhurst. - 1st ed. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2003. - x, 231 p. ; 25 cm. - Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 7 . - Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 7. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Presidential speechwriting : ten myths that plague modern scholarship / Martin J. Medhurst -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt : rhetorical politics and political rhetorics / Halford Ryan -- Harry S. Truman : from whistle-stops to the halls of congress / Diana B. Carlin -- Dwight D. Eisenhower : the 1954 state of the union address as a case study in presidential speechwriting / Charles J.G. Griffin -- John F. Kennedy : presidential speechwriting as rhetorical collaboration / Theodore O. Windt, Jr. -- Lyndon B. Johnson : from private deliberations to public declaration : the making of LBJ's renunciation speech / Moya Ann Ball -- Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford : lessons on speechwriting / Craig R. Smith -- Jimmy Carter : the language of politics and the practice of integrity / John H. Patton -- Ronald Reagan's bully pulpit : creating a rhetoric of values / William K. Muir, Jr. -- Enduring issues in presidential speechwriting / Martin J. Medhurst.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
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Presidents--History--United States--20th century.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Political oratory--History--United States--20th century.
Speechwriting--History--United States--20th century.
Speechwriters--United States--Biography.
English language--Rhetoric.--United States


United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.


Electronic books.

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