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The bully pulpit, presidential speeches, and the shaping of public policy / edited by Jeffrey S. Ashley and Marla J. Jarmer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498501965
  • 1498501966
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bully pulpit, presidential speeches, and the shaping of public policy.DDC classification:
  • 352.23 23
LOC classification:
  • JK511
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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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