Presidential speechwriting : from the New Deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond

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Title:

Presidential speechwriting : from the New Deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond

Author:

Ritter, Kurt W.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2003]

Physical Description:

x, 231 pages ; 25 cm.

Series:

Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 7

Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 7.

Language:

English

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

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.

English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.

Geographic Term:

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

Added Author:

Ritter, Kurt W.