The anti-intellectual presidency : the decline of presidential rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush

• Tác giả: Elvin T Lim
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 019534264X (hbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780195342642 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 973.099 United States
• Thông tin xuất bản: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Mô tả vật lý: xviii, 178 p. : , ill. ; , 24 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Lịch sử, Địa lý
• ID: 43531
• Chủ đề: 1. Communication in politics--History--United States; 2. Political oratory--History--United States; 3. Presidents--History--United States; 4. Presidents--Intellectual life--United States; 5. Presidents--Language--United States; 6. Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

"In The Anti-Intellectual Presidency, Elvin T. Lim draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate the relentless qualitative decline, over the course of the past 200 years, in our presidents' ability to communicate with the public. Lim argues that the ever-increasing pressure for presidents to manage and massage public opinion has created a "pathology of vacuous rhetoric and imagery," in which applause-rendering platitudes and punch lines matter more than arguments and facts."--BOOK JACKET.