Presidential speechwriting [electronic resource] : from the New Deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond / edited by Kurt Ritter and Martin J. Medhurst

Title	Presidential speechwriting [electronic resource] : from the New Deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond / edited by Kurt Ritter and Martin J. Medhurst
Imprint	College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2003
Edition	1st ed
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Descript	x, 231 p. ; 25 cm

CONTENT

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

Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century Presidents -- United States -- Biography Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Political oratory -- United States -- History -- 20th century Speechwriting -- United States -- History -- 20th century Speechwriters -- United States -- Biography United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 English language -- United States -- Rhetoric Electronic books.