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Title Before the rhetorical presidency / edited by Martin J. Medhurst.

Publication Info. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 19
Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 19.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Was there a nineteenth century rhetorical presidency? a debate revisited / Martin J. Medhurst -- Part I. Alternative perspectives on the rhetorical presidency. Talking without speaking, and other curiosities / Mel Laracey ; On the forms of rhetorical leadership / Jeffrey K. Tulis ; Present at the founding: the rhetorical presidency in historical perspective / Stephen E. Lucas -- Part II. Nineteenth-century rhetorical presidencies. Little magic: Martin van Buren and the politics of gender / Susan Zaeske ; John Tyler and the rhetoric of the accidental presidency / David Zarefsky ; James Knox Polk: the first imperial president? / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell ; Franklin Pierce and the exuberant hauteur of an age of extremes: a love song for America in six movements / Stephen John Hartnett ; James Buchanan: romancing the Union / Robert E. Terrill ; Andrew Johnson and the politics of character / Stephen Howard Browne ; Resolute commander for just peace: the rhetoric of President Ulysses S. Grant / George R. Goethals ; The challenges of reunification: Rutherford B. Hayes on the close race and the racial divide / Amy R. Slagell ; The problem with public memory: Benjamin Harrison confronts the "southern question" / Kirt H. Wilson ; Grover Cleveland and the non-rhetorical presidency / Michael Leff ; William McKinley and the emergence of the modern rhetorical presidency / William D. Harpine -- Afterword: Questioning the rhetorical presidency construct / M.J Medhurst.
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Subject USA / Präsident.
USA / Präsident.
Presidents -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Presidents.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Presidents -- United States -- Language.
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States.
Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Medhurst, Martin J.
Other Form: Print version: Before the rhetorical presidency. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008011037
ISBN 9781603446266 (electronic book)
1603446265 (electronic book)
9781603440714
1603440712