Bøker av Mary E. Stuckey

Uses a set of letters sent to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 by American clergymen to make a larger argument about the rhetorical processes of our national politics. Taking one specific moment of political change, the author illuminates the larger processes of change, competition, and stability in national politics.

Focuses on the text of President Ronald Reagan's speech. The author shows how President Reagan's reputation as ""the Great Communicator"" adds significance to our understanding of his rhetoric on one of the most momentous occasions of his administration.

This text argures that the communicative failures of Bill Clinton - and of other modern presidents - can be explained by looking at the intersection of the individual presidents with the institutional expectations of the presidency.

Politics as practiced by Reagan is examined through analysis of Reagan's rhetoric from his days as the governor of California to his campaign for the presidency in 1980.

As Mary Stuckey observes, presidents embrace, articulate, and reinvigorate the American sense of national identity. They define who Americans are - often by declaring who they aren't. Here, she shows how presidential speech has served to broaden the American political community over the past two centuries while at the same time excluding others.

Suitable for presidency watchers, media scholars, and those who care about the quality of American politics, this title presents a perceptive study of presidential rhetoric that shows how technological changes have emptied presidential discourse of political substance, weakening American democracy.

The data for this volume includes speeches, remarks, addresses, statements, memorandums, and other forms of public speech during the Reagan years. The design of the book is both chronological and thematic, given the theme of the development of Reagan's rhetoric over time and the eventual exposition of its weakness.