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The Inaugural addresses of twentieth-century American presidents

Author: Halford Ross Ryan
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1993.
Series: Praeger series in political communication.
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The essays in Halford Ryan's The Inaugural Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents explore how presidents have used their addresses to empower themselves in office. The volume's construct holds that the president delivers persuasive speeches to move the Congress and the people, and to move the people to move the Congress if it is intransigent. Even on Inauguration Day, a largely ceremonial occasion, the  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Inaugural addresses
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Inaugural addresses of twentieth-century American presidents.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1993
(OCoLC)624476187
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Halford Ross Ryan
ISBN: 027594039X 9780275940393
OCLC Number: 26762817
Description: xix, 324 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural address, 1905 / Robert Friedenberg --
President William Howard Taft's inaugural address, 1909 / Craig R. Smith --
President Woodrow Wilson's first inaugural address, 1913 / James R. Andrews --
President Woodrow Wilson's second inaugural address, 1917 / Gary C. Woodward --
President Warren G. Harding's inaugural address, 1921 / John T. Morello--
President Calvin Coolidge's inaugural address, 1925 / Warren Decker --
President Herbert Hoover's inaugural address, 1929 / Carl R. Burgchardt --
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address, 1933 / Halford Ryan --
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address, 1937 ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third inaugural address, 1941 / Michael Weiler --
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fourth inaugural address, 1945 / Daniel Ross Chandler. President Harry S. Truman's inaugural address, 1949 / Halford Ryan --
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's first inaugural address, 1953 ; President Dwight D. Eisenhower's second inaugural address / Martin J. Medhurst --
President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, 1961 / Theodore Otto Windt, Jr. --
President Lyndon B. Johnson's inaugural address, 1965 / Kurt Ritter --
President Richard Nixon's first inaugural address, 1969 / Hal W. Bochin --
President Richard Nixon's second inaugural address, 1973 / Thomas A. Hollihan --
President Gerald R. Ford's inaugural address, 1974 / Bernard L. Brock --
President Jimmy Carter's inaugural address, 1977 / Craig Allen Smith --
President Ronald Reagan's first inaugural address, 1981 / David Henry --
President Ronald Reagan's second inaugural address, 1985 / Kurt Ritter --
President George Bush's inaugural address, 1989 / Bernard K. Duffy. President Bill Clinton's inaugural address, 1993 / Halford Ryan.
Series Title: Praeger series in political communication.
Responsibility: edited by Halford Ryan.
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The essays in Halford Ryan's The Inaugural Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents explore how presidents have used their addresses to empower themselves in office. The volume's construct holds that the president delivers persuasive speeches to move the Congress and the people, and to move the people to move the Congress if it is intransigent. Even on Inauguration Day, a largely ceremonial occasion, the president seeks acquiescence and action from Congress and the people in his first rhetorical deed as the nation's chief executive officer. Since scholars agree that the rhetorical presidency arose in the twentieth century with Theodore Roosevelt, the book commences with Roosevelt's address, followed by all subsequent presidents' inaugurals - including that of Bill Clinton. The authors' methodology applies classical rhetoric to the nexus of political discourse - the interrelationships among the speaker, the speech, and the audience - discussing vox populi, elocutio, inventio, and actio. Each of the chapters analyzes the political situation with regard to political purpose, giving special attention to genre criticism and to the themes of campaign rhetoric that were or were not carried forth into the inaugural address. The essayists explicate the evolution of each inaugural's preparation, criticize its delivery, and evaluate its persuasive strengths and weaknesses by accounting for its reception by the media and by the American people. Recommended for scholars of political communication and rhetoric, political science, history, and presidential studies.

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