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The rhetorical presidency

Jeffrey Tulis (Author)
"Modern presidents regularly appeal over the heads of Congress to the people at large to generate support for public policies. [This book] 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 ... work probes political pathologies and analyzes the dilemmas of presidential statecraft."-- Back cover
eBook, English, 2017
First Princeton Classics edition View all formats and editions
Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2017
History
1 online resource (xx, 242 pages)
9781400888368, 1400888360
1007227272
1. Introduction: The rhetorical presidency
2. The old way: Founding and forms
Constitutional Principles
Official rhetoric
3. The old way: Developed and expressed
"Unofficial" presidential rhetoric
The great exception: Andrew Johnson
4. The middle way: Statesmanship as moderation
Theodore Roosevelt and the Hepburn Act
Conditions of success
The old way revised
5. The New Way: Leadership as Interpretation
Reinterpreting the constitutional principles: Woodrow Wilson's statecraft
New standards, new forms
Comparing rhetoric: Old and new
6. Limits of Leadership
The problem of credibility: Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations campaign
The breakdown of deliberation: Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty
7. Dilemmas of Governance
Crisis politics and normal politics
Campaigns, wordsmiths, media
Ronald Reagan, the great communicator
The rhetorical prerogative
Originally published by Princeton University Press in 1987. Now with new foreword and a new afterword
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