Research Catalog

Title

Presidents creating the presidency : deeds done in words / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson.

Author

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description
• Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Additional Authors

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall.

Description

433 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Arguing that the presidency is not defined by the Constitution which doesn't use the term but by what presidents say and how they say it. Deeds Done in Words has been the definitive book on presidential rhetoric for more than a decade. In Presidents Creating the Presidency, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson expand and recast their classic work for the YouTube era, revealing how our media-saturated age has transformed the ever-evolving rhetorical strategies that presidents use to increase and sustain the executive branches powers. Identifying the primary genres of presidential oratory, Campbell and Jamieson add new analyses of signing statements and national eulogies to their explorations of inaugural addresses, veto messages, and war rhetoric, among other types. They explain that in some of these genres, such as farewell addresses intended to leave an individual legacy, the president acts alone; in others, such as State of the Union speeches that urge a legislative agenda, the executive solicits reaction from the other branches. Updating their coverage through the current administration, the authors contend that many of these rhetorical acts extend over time: George W. Bush's post-September 11 statements, for example, culminated in a speech at the National Cathedral and became a touchstone for his subsequent address to Congress.

Subject

• United Soccer Association > Präsident
• USA. President
• Geschichte
• Geschichte
• Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States
• Political oratory > United States
• Presidents > United States > Language
• Political oratory
• Presidents > Language
• Rhetoric > Political aspects
• Politische Rede
• Rhetorik
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : the rhetorical presidency -- Inaugural addresses -- Special inaugural addresses : the speeches of ascendant vice presidents -- National eulogies -- Pardoning rhetoric -- State of the Union addresses -- Veto messages -- The signing statement as de facto item veto -- Presidential war rhetoric -- Presidential rhetoric of self-defense -- The rhetoric of impeachment -- Farewell addresses -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 15-5553

ISBN

• 9780226092218 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0226092216 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780226092201 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0226092208 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007031668

OCLC

163625245

Author

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs.

Title

Presidents creating the presidency : deeds done in words / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson.

Imprint

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chronological Term

Geschichte

Geschichte.

Added Author

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall.

Other Form:

Online version: Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs. Presidents creating the presidency. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 (OCoLC)608530113

Research Call Number

JFE 15-5553