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The Rhetorical Presidency

By - Tulis, Jeffrey
Floor - Floor 1
Published - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1987
ISBN 10 - 069102295X
ISBN 13 - 9780691022956
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Political oratory
Shelf No - 18
Call Number - 353.0323 TUL
Physical Description - x, 209 pages ; 25 cm
Notes - includes index
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"Modern presidents regularly appeal over the heads of Congress to the people at large to generate support for public policies. [This book] makes the case that this development, born at the outset of the twentieth century, is the product of conscious political choices that fundamentally transformed the presidency and the meaning of American governance. Now with a new foreword by Russell Muirhead and a new afterword by the author, this...work probes political pathologies and analyzes the dilemmas of presidential statecraft."...

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