Words from the White House

Words from the White House
Author: Paul Dickson
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2020-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 048683722X

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Entertaining, eminently readable volume compiles words and phrases coined or popularized by American presidents. Alphabetical listings feature a definition and (usually) a brief discussion that places them in historical context.

Presidents Creating the Presidency

Presidents Creating the Presidency
Author: Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2008-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0226092216

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Arguing that “the presidency” is not defined by the Constitution—which doesn’t use the term—but by what presidents say and how they say it, Deeds Done in Words has been the definitive book on presidential rhetoric for more than a decade. In Presidents Creating the Presidency, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson expand and recast their classic work for the YouTube era, revealing how our media-saturated age has transformed the ever-evolving rhetorical strategies that presidents use to increase and sustain the executive branch’s powers. Identifying the primary genres of presidential oratory, Campbell and Jamieson add new analyses of signing statements and national eulogies to their explorations of inaugural addresses, veto messages, and war rhetoric, among other types. They explain that in some of these genres, such as farewell addresses intended to leave an individual legacy, the president acts alone; in others, such as State of the Union speeches that urge a legislative agenda, the executive solicits reaction from the other branches. Updating their coverage through the current administration, the authors contend that many of these rhetorical acts extend over time: George W. Bush’s post-September 11 statements, for example, culminated in a speech at the National Cathedral and became a touchstone for his subsequent address to Congress. For two centuries, presidential discourse has both succeeded brilliantly and failed miserably at satisfying the demands of audience, occasion, and institution—and in the process, it has increased and depleted political capital by enhancing presidential authority or ceding it to the other branches. Illuminating the reasons behind each outcome, Campbell and Jamieson draw an authoritative picture of how presidents have used rhetoric to shape the presidency—and how they continue to re-create it.

Words That Matter

Words That Matter
Author: Leticia Bode
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0815731922

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How the 2016 news media environment allowed Trump to win the presidency The 2016 presidential election campaign might have seemed to be all about one man. He certainly did everything possible to reinforce that impression. But to an unprecedented degree the campaign also was about the news media and its relationships with the man who won and the woman he defeated. Words that Matter assesses how the news media covered the extraordinary 2016 election and, more important, what information—true, false, or somewhere in between—actually helped voters make up their minds. Using journalists' real-time tweets and published news coverage of campaign events, along with Gallup polling data measuring how voters perceived that reporting, the book traces the flow of information from candidates and their campaigns to journalists and to the public. The evidence uncovered shows how Donald Trump's victory, and Hillary Clinton's loss, resulted in large part from how the news media responded to these two unique candidates. Both candidates were unusual in their own ways, and thus presented a long list of possible issues for the media to focus on. Which of these many topics got communicated to voters made a big difference outcome. What people heard about these two candidates during the campaign was quite different. Coverage of Trump was scattered among many different issues, and while many of those issues were negative, no single negative narrative came to dominate the coverage of the man who would be elected the 45th president of the United States. Clinton, by contrast, faced an almost unrelenting news media focus on one negative issue—her alleged misuse of e-mails—that captured public attention in a way that the more numerous questions about Trump did not. Some news media coverage of the campaign was insightful and helpful to voters who really wanted serious information to help them make the most important decision a democracy offers. But this book also demonstrates how the modern media environment can exacerbate the kind of pack journalism that leads some issues to dominate the news while others of equal or greater importance get almost no attention, making it hard for voters to make informed choices.

The Presidents Words, an Index

The Presidents Words, an Index
Author: Ralph Joseph Shoemaker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1954
Genre:
ISBN:

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"... The following index includes speeches, messages to congress, press conferences, executive orders, letters and statements of President Eisenhower. It contains subjects and persons spoken about, phrases, quotations, expressions and words used ..."--Foreword.

The President's Words

The President's Words
Author: Michael Nelson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Political oratory
ISBN: 9780700617388

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Looks at presidential speeches over the course of six administrations. An outstanding team of scholars and professional writers--including nine former speechwriters who worked for every president from Nixon to Clinton--examines how the politics and crafting of presidential rhetoric serve the various roles of the presidency.

Deeds Done in Words

Deeds Done in Words
Author: Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 1990-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226092410

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"Deeds Done in Words is an impressive piece of work. It is the first attempt to identify and assess the principal genres of rhetoric, and to interpret the panoply of those genres in terms of the needs of, and the needs for, ritual in American politics."—Jeffrey Tulis, author of The Rhetorical Presidency "Deeds Done in Words is a thoughtful survey of how a democracy uses language to transact its business. Based on an enlivened understanding of genre theory and on numerous pieces of original criticism, Campbell and Jamieson vividly show how central public discourse has become the lifeblood of the American polity."—Roderick Hart, author of The Sound of Leadership "The rhetoric that issues from the White House is becoming an ever more salient part of what the presidency means and does. This acute inquiry provides a great many insights into the forms, meanings, and functions of presidential discourse. It is an enlightening contribution to our understanding of American politics."—Murray Edelman, author of Constructing the Political Spectacle

Monument

Monument
Author: Robert Dallek
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 994
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1684129257

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From personal correspondence to presidential speeches and documents, Monument: Four Presidents Who Sculpted America explores the written words of the men forever remembered on the face of Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota. Originally a project to boost tourism, the sculpture received congressional approval in 1925, and construction was completed in 1941, shortly after the death of sculptor Gutzon Borglum. Canterbury Classics has gathered historic documents penned by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt into this beautiful leather-bound volume, and added introductions by learned scholars to outline the contribution each president made to the birth, growth, development, and preservation of the United States. Also included is the story of how Mount Rushmore came to be, and a foreword written by historian Robert Dallek. With more than two million visitors annually, Mount Rushmore lives up to its status as a “Shrine of Democracy,” and this rich piece of U.S. history is preserved in this timeless collectible edition.

The Presidents Words

The Presidents Words
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2022-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752590467

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. A selection of Passages from the speeches, addresses, and letters of Abraham Lincoln.

President's Speech

President's Speech
Author: C. Edwin Vilade
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012-10-16
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0762790245

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With vivid insight and rousing examples, The President’s Speech takes apart America’s most important presidential addresses, phrase by phrase, and examines the pivotal, often familiar, and always potent language that presidents past used to mold public opinion. Author and speechwriter Edwin Vilade provides the framework for each speech, both within the context of its era and also as a point on a timeline of our country’s long history. Starting at George Washington’s Farewell Address and ending with George W. Bush’s Axis of Evil State of the Union speech, Vilade reveals the varied and often conflicting points of view that shaped the final famous words. Color facsimiles show actual edits, deletions, additions, and handwritten notes to illustrate how remarkable and forceful language was crafted, sometimes at the last minute, into enduring words made famous by their timing, context, delivery, and power, from the 1823 Monroe Doctrine to Ronald Reagan’s “tear down that wall, Mr. Gorbachev” speech at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, revealing political and social currents that frame these words for modern times.

The Most Powerful Presidential Words

The Most Powerful Presidential Words
Author: Katie Kawa
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1538247984

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Four score and seven years ago... "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." The words of American presidents have comforted and challenged Americans since the country's earliest days, and readers discover the riveting stories behind the most powerful presidential words in this unique look at American history. Filled with memorable quotes, detailed sidebars, graphic organizers, and historical and contemporary images, this reading experience expands on common social studies curriculum topics in creative ways.