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Presidential rhetoric and the public agenda : constructing the war on drugs / Andrew B. Whitford and Jeff Yates.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitford, Andrew B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States.
- Presidents.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Political leadership--United States.
- Political leadership.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
- Rhetoric.
- Political oratory--United States.
- Political oratory.
- Presidents--United States--Language.
- Drug control--United States.
- Drug control.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Presidential leadership and policy construction
- Presidential rhetoric as policy leadership
- A presidential history of the war on drugs
- The words of war : political rhetoric and the war on drugs
- Presidential policy leadership and federal enforcement : the Drug Enforcement Administration
- For the people : the U.S. attorneys and executive signals on prosecutorial priorities
- Taking it to the states : the boundaries of presidential influence and state drug enforcement
- The social construction of presidential agenda setting.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-208) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780801893469
- 0801893461
- OCLC:
- 283802735
- Publisher Number:
- 99935126448
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