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Genre/Form: | Messages Inaugural addresses |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James C Humes |
ISBN: | 0275935078 9780275935078 |
OCLC Number: | 24247643 |
Description: | xviii, 287 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The farewell address : Washington's declaration of independence in foreign policy -- Jefferson's first inaugural : the revolutionary as reconciler -- The Monroe Doctrine : the whispered warning -- The Jackson bank veto : the war against the eastern establishment -- Polk's inaugural : action as eloquence -- The Gettysburg Address : the great American poem -- The Cleveland tariff message : the battle against big business -- The big stick : Monroe Doctrine à la Theodore Roosevelt -- Wilson's declaration of war : a latter-day Paul on Mars Hill -- The sesquicentennial address : the sermon at the shrine -- Franklin Roosevelt's first inaugural : the rhetoric of recovery -- Harry Truman's acceptance address : the Turnip Day talk -- Eisenhower's farewell address : an old soldier's warning -- The Kennedy inaugural : a young warrior's call to arms -- President Nixon's toast to Chairman Mao : the Beijing breakthrough -- The Reagan address at the Palace of Westminster : a prophecy for a free world. |
Responsibility: | James C. Humes ; foreword by Sam Nunn. |
Abstract:
A study of American political history through the prism of selected presidential addresses. It reveals how presidents used major addresses to give a theme for their administration, to introduce history-making legislation or programmes, or to rally a majority of the nation behind their policies.
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