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U.S. presidents as orators : a bio-critical sourcebook / edited by Halford Ryan.
Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles Available online
Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political oratory--United States.
- Political oratory.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects.
- Presidents.
- United States.
- Presidents--United States--Language.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
- Rhetoric.
- English language--United States--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 390 pages.)
- Other Title:
- US presidents as orators.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- First systematic critique of the rhetoric of 21 presidents focusing on the nexus of oratory and politics.
- Contents:
- George Washington / Stephen E. Lucas and Susan Zaeske
- John Adams / James M. Farrell
- Thomas Jefferson / Daniel Ross Chandler
- James Madison / Lois J. Einhorn
- John Quincy Adams / Sean Patrick O'Rourke
- Andrew Jackson / Thomas M. Lessl
- Abraham Lincoln / Lois J. Einhorn
- Theodore Roosevelt / Robert V. Friedenberg
- Woodrow Wilson / J. Michael Hogan and James R. Andrews
- Herbert Clark Hoover / Carl R. Burgchardt
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Halford Ryan
- Dwight D. Eisenhower / Martin J. Medhurst
- John Fitzgerald Kenndy / Vito N. Silvestri
- Lyndon Baines Johnson / Kenneth S. Zagacki
- Richard Milhous Nixon / Hal W. Bochin
- Gerald R. Ford / Craig Allen Smith
- Jimmy Carter / Don F. Hahn and Halford Ryan
- Ronald Reagan / Kurt Ritter
- George Herbert Walker Bush / Craig R. Smith
- Bill Clinton / Stephen C. Wood and Jean M. DeWitt.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: U.S. presidents as orators.
- ISBN:
- 9780313032813
- 0313032815
- Publisher Number:
- 99990106895
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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