U.S. Presidents as Orators - A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

List of contents

Acknowledgments
An Introduction to Presidential Oratory
U.S. Presidents as Orators
George Washington by Stephen E. Lucas and Susan Zaeske
John Adams by James M. Farrell
Thomas Jefferson by Daniel Ross Chandler
James Madison by Lois J. Einhorn
John Quincy Adams by Sean Patrick O'Rourke
Andrew Jackson by Thomas M. Lessl
Abraham Lincoln by Lois J. Einhorn
Theodore Roosevelt by Robert V. Friedenberg
Woodrow Wilson by J. Michael Hogan and James R. Andrews
Herbert Clark Hoover by Carl R. Burgchardt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Halford Ryan
Harry S. Truman by Halford Ryan
Dwight D. Eisenhower by Martin J. Medhurst
John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Vito N. Silvestri
Lyndon Baines Johnson by Kenneth S. Zagacki
Richard Milhous Nixon by Hal W. Bochin
Gerald R. Ford by Craig Allen Smith
Jimmy Carter by Dan F. Hahn and Halford Ryan
Ronald Reagan by Kurt Ritter
George Herbert Walker Bush by Craig R. Smith
Bill Clinton by Stephen C. Wood and Jean M. DeWitt
Index
About the Editors and Contributors

About the author

HALFORD R. RYAN, Professor of English and Public Speaking, Washington and Lee University, is the author of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Rhetorical Presidency (Greenwood, 1988), Persuasive Advocacy (1985), American Rhetoric from Roosevelt to Reagan (1984), and Classical Communication for the Contemporary Communicator (1992).

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Halford R.
• Assisted by: Halford R. Ryan (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.1995
• EAN: 9780313290596
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29059-6
• No. of pages: 408
• Weight: 680 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Public speaking guides, Central / national / federal government, Central government, Speaking in public: advice and guides, Politics, Law, and Government: Presidential Studies