Format:
1 online resource (197 pages)
ISBN:
9780199711611
Content:
Lim argues that the ever-increasing tendency for presidents to crowd out argument in presidential rhetoric with applause-rendering platitudes and partisan punch-lines was concertedly implemented by the modern White House. Through a series of interviews with former presidential speechwriters, he shows that the anti-intellectual stance was a deliberate choice rather than a reflection of presidents' intellectual limitations. Only the smart, he suggests, know how to "dumb down.".
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- 1 The Problem of Presidential Rhetoric -- 2 The Linguistic Simplification of Presidential Rhetoric -- 3 The Anti-Intellectual Speechwriters -- 4 The Substantive Impoverishment of Presidential Rhetoric -- 5 Institutionalizing the Anti-Intellectual Presidency -- 6 Indicting the Anti-Intellectual Presidency -- 7 Reforming the Anti-Intellectual Presidency -- Appendix I: The General Inquirer (GI) -- Appendix II: Definitions of General Inquirer Categories Used -- Appendix III: Annual Messages, 1790-2006 -- Appendix IV: Inaugural Addresses, 1789-2005 -- Appendix V: Presidential Speechwriters Interviewed -- Appendix VI: The Flesch Readability Score -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195342642
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780195342642
Additional Edition:
Print version The Anti-Intellectual Presidency The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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General works
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=415828
