1st Edition

Political Rhetoric A Presidential Briefing Book

By Mary E. Stuckey Copyright 2015
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

Rhetoric is among the most important and least understood elements of presidential leadership. Presidents have always wielded rhetoric as one tool of governance—and that rhetoric was always intended to facilitate political ends, such as image building, persuasion of the mass public, and inter-branch government persuasion. But as mass media has grown and then fragmented, as the federal bureaucracy... Read more
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Communicating the Presidency1 The Public, the Media, and the Presidency2 Rhetoric from an Institutional Perspective3 Managing Rhetorical OpportunitiesConclusion: Presidents and Their RhetoricBibliography

Biography

Mary E. Stuckey