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Presidents Creating the Presidency Deeds Done in Words

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ISBN-10: 0226092216

ISBN-13: 9780226092218

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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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 branch's powers. Identifying the primary genres of presidential oratory, Campbell and Jamieson add new analyses of signing statements and national eulogies…    
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Book details

List price: $34.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.90" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Preface
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
Other Rhetorical Forms
Notes
Index