Presidential Rhetoric (1961 to the Present)

By Theodore Windt

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0840337469
• ISBN13: 9780840337467
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Collection of Historically Significant Speeches

This collection of speeches covering the Kennedy through Reagan years in America is a textbook that was used in Dr. Windt's course on Presidential Rhetoric. It's a good collection of speeches, presented with the appropriate background of what was happening in the political and social atmosphere as they were given. Heavy on prime time speeches, the book also includes significant Presidential News Conferences and an important Nixon written statement issued during the Watergate era. The collection of speeches is used to demonstrate the rise of the "Rhetorical Presidency," and a look at how presidents have been able to capitalize on this form of power.