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The bully pulpit, presidential speeches, and the shaping of public policy /

"By examining speeches from Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and every president in between, The Bully Pulpit ... shows how language has been instrumental in directing policy. Each chapter examines the situation or background of the problem, includes a transcript of the speech the president delivered,...

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Group Author: Ashley, Jeffrey S., 1965- (Editor); Jarmer, Marla J., 1968- (Editor)
Published: Lexington Books,
Publisher Address: Lanham, Maryland :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Presidents > United States > Messages.
Presidents > United States > History.
Communication in politics > United States.
Policy sciences.
Political oratory.
Communication in politics.
Politics and Government.
Presidents.
United States > Politics and government.
United States.
History.
Summary: "By examining speeches from Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and every president in between, The Bully Pulpit ... shows how language has been instrumental in directing policy. Each chapter examines the situation or background of the problem, includes a transcript of the speech the president delivered, and concludes with an analysis of the particular frame that was used and the eventual outcome or policy direction inspired by the speech"--Back cover.
Carrier Form: xiv, 266 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index.
ISBN: 9781498501958 (cloth : alk. paper) :
1498501958 (cloth : alk. paper)
Index Number: JK587
CLC: D771.209
Call Number: D771.209/B938
Contents: Theodore Roosevelt : conservationism /
William Howard Taft and the conservation of the Republican Party in 1912 /
Woodrow Wilson : women's suffrage /
Warren G. Harding : return to normalcy /
Calvin Coolidge : regime articulation through expectations /
Herbert Clark Hoover : farm relief /
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the inauguration of the New Deal /
Harry S. Truman : veto of Taft-Hartley Act /
Dwight Eisenhower : farewell address /
John F. Kennedy : civil rights /
Lyndon Baines Johnson : Vietnam and "peace without conquest" /
Richard Nixon and American Indian policy /
Gerald Ford : plan to whip inflation now /
Jimmy Carter : human rights as "the soul of our foreign policy" /
Ronald Reagan and American drug policy /
George H.W. Bush and the Persian Gulf War /
Bill Clinton : race and the crisis of the American spirit /
George W. Bush : terrorism and American security /
Barack Obama and hate crime legislation : The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act /

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