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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... term heralded as a popular leader, a “great communicator,” even by critics of his policies. Reagan has taken his case to the people at least once every week of his administration through radio and television addresses, continuing a ...
... term ability to accomplish whatever objectives presidents might have. By contrast, in this book I place instances of presidential rhetoric within a larger context of changing conceptions of the political order. Presidential strategy is ...
... term signifies—caused party decay. Finally, party reform was concomitant with the rise of the rhetorical presidency, a result of some of the same doctrinal developments examined in this book.” Still, the treatment of ideas as semi ...
... term rhetorical success (from an institutionally partisan perspective) resulted in long-term costs for the system as a whole. Johnson's preemption of the deliberative process resulted in a bill that even his supporters later conceded ...
... term failure. The cases of presidential failure are intended to reveal the limits of the rhetorical presidency and to illuminate some more general dilemmas of modern American politics. These dilemmas are the subject of Chapter 7. A ...