The bully pulpit, presidential speeches, and the shaping of public policy / edited by Jeffrey S. Ashley and Marla J. Jarmer.
Material type: TextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781498501965
- 1498501966
- 352.23 23
- JK511
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 29, 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction; 1 Theodore Roosevelt; 2 William Howard Taft and the Conservation of the Republican Party in 1912; 3 Woodrow Wilson; 4 Warren G. Harding; 5 Calvin Coolidge; 6 Herbert Clark Hoover; 7 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Inauguration of the New Deal; 8 Harry S. Truman; 9 Dwight Eisenhower; 10 John F. Kennedy; 11 Lyndon Baines Johnson; 12 Richard Nixon and American Indian Policy; 13 Gerald Ford; 14 Jimmy Carter; 15 Ronald Reagan and American Drug Policy; 16 George H.W. Bush and the Persian Gulf War; 17 Bill Clinton; 18 George W. Bush; 19 Barack Obama and Hate Crime Legislation
The Bully Pulpit, Presidential Speeches, and the Shaping of Public Policy explores how presidents use speeches to shape and influence public policy. Coming from a wide range of disciplines, each chapter in this edited collection examines a selected speech delivered by every president from Roosevelt through Barack Obama to show how language has been instrumental in directing policy.
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