Research Catalog

Title

Before the rhetorical presidency / edited by Martin J. Medhurst.

Publication

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Medhurst, Martin J.

Description

x, 356 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 19

Uniform Title

Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 19.

Subject

• Presidents > United States > History > 19th century
• Presidents > United States > Language
• Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States
• United States > Politics and government > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Was there a nineteenth century rhetorical presidency? a debate revisited / Martin J. Medhurst -- Part I. Alternative perspectives on the rhetorical presidency. Talking without speaking, and other curiosities / Mel Laracey ; On the forms of rhetorical leadership / Jeffrey K. Tulis ; Present at the founding: the rhetorical presidency in historical perspective / Stephen E. Lucas -- Part II. Nineteenth-century rhetorical presidencies. Little magic: Martin van Buren and the politics of gender / Susan Zaeske ; John Tyler and the rhetoric of the accidental presidency / David Zarefsky ; James Knox Polk: the first imperial president? / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell ; Franklin Pierce and the exuberant hauteur of an age of extremes: a love song for America in six movements / Stephen John Hartnett ; James Buchanan: romancing the Union / Robert E. Terrill ; Andrew Johnson and the politics of character / Stephen Howard Browne ; Resolute commander for just peace: the rhetoric of President Ulysses S. Grant / George R. Goethals ; The challenges of reunification: Rutherford B. Hayes on the close race and the racial divide / Amy R. Slagell ; The problem with public memory: Benjamin Harrison confronts the "southern question" / Kirt H. Wilson ; Grover Cleveland and the non-rhetorical presidency / Michael Leff ; William McKinley and the emergence of the modern rhetorical presidency / William D. Harpine -- Afterword: Questioning the rhetorical presidency construct / M.J Medhurst.

Call Number

IBM 09-9270

ISBN

• 9781603440714 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1603440712 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008011037
• 40016159055

OCLC

213599881

Title

Before the rhetorical presidency / edited by Martin J. Medhurst.

Imprint

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2008.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 19

Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 19.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Added Author

Medhurst, Martin J.

Other Standard Identifier

40016159055

Research Call Number

IBM 09-9270