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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... nineteenth-century pre-rhetorical presidency made it possible to distinguish between a popular representative (which the Constitution prescribed) and a popular leader (which the Constitution proscribed). The Constitution stood between ...
... nineteenth century. While the older, formal presidency reflected a constitutional order in good repair, the twentieth century's rhetorical presidency, which elevated personal leadership at the expense of constitutional restraints ...
... nineteenth century and become a true leader of the people—was not meant to overturn the founders' Constitution, but to make it work in spite of its defects. Wilson wished for a president who could stand before the people and inspire ...
... nineteenth-century proscription of popular rhetoric rested on a larger understanding of how the whole polity functioned and how it ought to function, including conceptions of statesmanship and of the constitutional order alternative to ...
... nineteenth century, but the view of an administrative state that legitimizes its existence can be found, again, in Hamilton.* Here, indeed, is an example of the maturation of an institution, grown from an original structure that ...