Presidential Rhetoric        Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, Updated and Expanded Edition19 reviews W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 A classic work made up of classic works + Best Speech Compilation - Ever + Lend me your ears and eyes + A Great Resource             Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (Vintage)10 reviews Douglas L. Wilson Vintage, 2007 A Scholarly Analysis readable by Anyone + Lincoln's words + Lincoln's Sword + Words that moved a nation + First-rate work             Presidential Travel: The Journey from George Washington to George W. Bush Richard J. Ellis University Press of Kansas, 2008 In office less than half a year, President George Washington undertook an arduous month-long tour of New England to promote his new government and to dispel fears of monarchy. More than two hundred years later, American presidents still regularly traverse the country to advance their political goals and demonstrate their connection to the people.In this first book-length study of the history of ...             White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters12 reviews Robert Schlesinger Simon & Schuster, 2008 Great Read about Great Speech + Great lessons for any speech writer + good stories- added a key point? + interesting perspective             Leadership Without Easy Answers18 reviews Ronald Heifetz Harvard University Press, 1998 Classic leadership text + McKinsey's Marvin Bower's own recommendation... + Thought provoking + Best Leadership book I have read             UNION OF WORDS: A History of Presidential Eloquence Wayne Fields Free Press, 1996 Leaders use words as tools to build a relationship with the populace, and often it is their words that are remembered and trusted rather than their actions. U.S. presidents have ample opportunity to address the public and, through these speeches, they can inspire confidence, ease the pain of war or disaster, and establish a national direction--often all in one delivery. As Wayne Fields ...             Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and the Genres of Governance Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson University Of Chicago Press, 1990 " 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 ...             Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library)56 reviews Garry Wills Simon & Schuster, 2006 I started reading again + A Gift to the Reader + Must reading for everyone Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) I had been reading only business books until this book came out. I had always enjoyed reading about Lincoln and the Civil War. Wills book brought all that back to life for me and I set out reading history and ...             Confessions of a White House Ghost Writer: Five Presidents and Other Political Adventures3 reviews James C. Humes Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1997 Interesting memoirs. + Interesting if a little overblown The author, "lawyer, legislator, diplomat, author, historian, actor, professor, and White House speechwriter", recipient of the Order of the British Empire and dance-partner with Queen Elizabeth, seems to have been everywhere and met everyone, most notably the several U.S. Presidents for who ...             The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 200832 reviews Mark Halperin, John F. Harris Random House, 2006 The Way to Win + Great book - politics today, like it or not (hope you don't) + Good for political junkies; some of their 2008 predictions already rendered irrelevant The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 is my first attempt to understanding the Political System. I found it very informative in some back history I have missed in my American Education....great history lessons on Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, George Bush, Democrats and ...             The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. ...2 reviews Elvin T. Lim Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Lim provides the proof This book offers compelling proof that presidents have dumbed down their public speech in the last two centuries. It is one of the very few political books I've read that is not at all partisan - Lim places equal blame on Clinton as he does on Bush. Lim nevertheless makes it clear that because ...             Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership4 reviews Samuel Kernell CQ Press, 2006 Necessary for understanding the presidency + Evolution of Washington Politics + Invaluable Evaluation of the Modern Presidency Kernell's fine work is a wonderful addition to the scholarly literature in political science on the American presidency. It's well-written and well-organized. His insights into why, when and how presidents "go public" and take their case over the heads of congressmen to the people are informative ...             What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era36 reviews Peggy Noonan Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003 What a writer! VERY good read. + Best of the Best + She's a goddess! + The girl behind Reagans' words + Insight from a truly unique perspective             Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History33 reviews Ted Sorensen Harper, 2008 Ted Sorensen's 2008 Convention Speech + Time well spent + Sorensen, before, during and after JFK Ted Sorensen's 2008 Convention Speech Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 03:20 PM "In my more than 50 years of national conventions, this is one of the most important. Our 8 year national nightmare of mendacity, mediocrity and economic misery--with millions of Americans losing their jobs, their ...             The Rhetorical Presidency1 review Jeffrey K. Tulis Princeton University Press, 1988 Excellent -- an absolute must-have. Tulis has written a brilliant account of the changing styles of presidential rhetoric. His essential argument is that the Framers intended the President to use rhetoric only to speak directly to Congress, rarely if ever to the masses, and always to put his ideas in a constitutional framework. But ...             Who Leads Whom?: Presidents, Policy, and the Public (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion) Brandice Canes-Wrone University Of Chicago Press, 2005 Who Leads Whom? is an ambitious study that addresses some of the most important questions in contemporary American politics: Do presidents pander to public opinion by backing popular policy measures that they believe would actually harm the country? Why do presidents "go public" with policy appeals? And do those appeals affect legislative outcomes? Analyzing the actions of modern presidents ...             The Sound of Leadership: Presidential Communication in the Modern Age Roderick P. Hart University Of Chicago Press, 1989 Why did Gerald Ford speak in public once every six hours during 1976? Why did no president spreak in Massachusetts during one ten-year period? Why did Jimmy Carter conduct public ceremonies four times more often than Harry Truman? Why are television viewers two-and-a-half times more likely to see a president speak on the nightly news than to hear him speak? The Sound of Leadership answers ...             Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour: Rhetoric, Public Opinion, And the League of Nations J. Michael Hogan Texas A&M University Press, 2006 On September 3, 1919, Woodrow Wilson embarked upon one of the most ambitious and controversial speaking tours in the history of American politics: a grueling 8,000-mile, twenty-two-day tour across the Midwest and Far West in support of the League of Nations. Historians still debate Wilson's motivations for touring, but most agree with Thomas Bailey that the tour proved a "disastrous blunder." Not ...             The Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents (Presidential Rhetoric Series, No. 17) Colleen J. Shogan Texas A&M University Press, 2006 Although sometimes decried by pundits, George W. Bush's use of moral and religious rhetoric is far from unique in the American presidency. "The Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents" astutely analyzes the president's role as the nation's moral spokesman. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative methods, Colleen J. Shogan demonstrates that moral and religious rhetoric is a strategic tool presidents ...             What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception197 reviews Scott McClellan PublicAffairs, 2008 Intensely Reasonable + Scott Bashes DC, Not Bush. + Fantastic Book + WHAT HAPPENED              Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen pc & video games: Cake Mania 2 (Windows) leave a comment home  impressum - about us