The Rhetorical Presidency: New EditionPrinceton University Press, 7 nov. 2017 - 264 pages Modern presidents regularly appeal over the heads of Congress to the people at large to generate support for public policies. The Rhetorical Presidency makes the case that this development, born at the outset of the twentieth century, is the product of conscious political choices that fundamentally transformed the presidency and the meaning of American governance. Now with a new foreword by Russell Muirhead and a new afterword by the author, this landmark work probes political pathologies and analyzes the dilemmas of presidential statecraft. Extending a tradition of American political writing that begins with The Federalist and continues with Woodrow Wilson’s Congressional Government, The Rhetorical Presidency remains a pivotal work in its field. |
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... meaning of governance. What are the larger views of the Presidency and the political system underlying the simple distaste for popular rhetoric in the nineteenth century and the common heralding of popular leadership today? Why did ...
... Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981); and George C. Edwards III, The Public Presidency (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983). * The analysis of political meaning is especially important and 12 THE RHETORICAL PRESIDENCY.
... meaning of alternative constitutional understandings. The political meaning and consequence of those understandings is the central subject of this book. 13 To indicate the importance of these underlying doctrines, consider the ...
... meaning of the original Constitution. As president, Wilson tried to act according to the dictates of his reinterpretation of American politics. As I show through analysis of twentiethcentury presidential rhetoric, presidents have ...
... meaning of “demagogue” was simply “leader of the people” and the word was applied in premodern times to champions of the people's claim to rule, as opposed to the claims of aristocrats and monarchs. As James Ceaser points out, the term ...