The Inaugural Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents

Herausgeber: Ryan, Halford R.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in Halford Ryan's The Inaugrual Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents explore how presidents have used their addresses to empower themselves in office. The volume's construct holds that the president delivers persuasive speeches to move the Congress and the people, and to move the people to move the Congress if it is intransigent. Even on Inauguration Day, a largely ceremonial occasion, the president seeks acquiescence and action from Congress and the people in his first rhetorical deed as the nation's chief executive officer. Since scholars agree that the rhetorical presidency arose in the twentieth century with Theodore Roosevelt, the book commences with Roosevelt's address, followed by all subsequent presidents' inaugurals--including that of Bill Clinton. The authors' methodology applies classical rhetoric to the nexus of political discourse--the interrelationships between the speaker, the speech, and the audience--discussing vox populi, elocutio, inventio, and actio. Each of the chapters analyzes the political situation with regard to political purpose, giving special attention to genre criticism and to the themes of campaign rhetoric that were or were not carried forth into the inaugural address. The essayists explicate the evolution of each inaugural's preparation, criticize its delivery, and evaluate its persuasive strengths and weaknesses by accounting for its reception by the media and by the American people. Recommended for scholars of political communication and rhetoric, political science, history, and presidential studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9780275940393
• ISBN-10: 027594039X
• Artikelnr.: 21048630

Autorenporträt

HALFORD RYAN is Professor of Public Speaking, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia./e He teaches courses in American public address and presidential rhetoric. He has co-edited, edited, or authored ten books, three of which are Franklin D. Roosevelt's Rhetorical Presidency (Greenwood, 1988), Classical Communication for the Contemporary Communicator, and Harry S. Truman's Presidential Rhetoric (Greenwood, 1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction President Theodore Roosevelt's Inaugural Address
1905 President William Howard Taft's Inaugural Address
1909 President Woodrow Wilson's First Inaugural Address
1913 President Woodrow Wilson's Second Inaugural Address
1917 President Warren G. Harding's Inaugural Address
1921 President Calvin Coolidge's Inaugural Address
1925 President Herbert Hoover's Inaugural Address
1929 President Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Second Inaugural Address
1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Third Inaugural Address
1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fourth Inaugural Address
1945 President Harry S. Truman's Inaugural Address
1949 President Dwight D. Eisenhower's First Inaugural Address
1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Second Inaugural Address
1957 President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
1961 President Lyndon B. Johnson's Inaugural Address
1965 President Richard Nixon's First Inaugural Address
1969 President Richard Nixon's Second Inaugural Address
1973 President Gerald R. Ford's Inaugural Address
1974 President Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address
1977 President Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address
1981 President Ronald Reagan's Second Inaugural Address
1985 President George Bush's Inaugural Address
1989 President Bill Clinton's Inaugural Address
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