Playing the Game: The Presidential Rhetoric of Ronald Reagan

by Mary E. Stuckey

Part of the Praeger Series in Political Communication, Playing the Game offers an exploration of the rhetoric of the Reagan Revolution. The book fully explores how the rhetoric supported, impeded, and affected Reagan's policy goals and political success. In this work, the author shows how Reagan's use of language in his public speech was instrumental in the creation of the Teflon Presidency, and how use of this language created a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275934136
• ISBN13: 9780275934132
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"