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The Anti-Intellectual Presidency : : the Decline of Presidential Rhetoric From George Washington to George W. Bush

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The problem of presidential rhetoric -- The linguistic simplification of presidential rhetoric -- The anti-intellectual speechwriters -- The substantive impoverishment of presidential rhetoric -- Institutionalizing the anti-intellectual presidency -- Indicting the anti-intellectual presidency -- Reforming the anti-intellectual presidency -- Appendix I : the General inquirer (GI) -- Appendix II : definitions of General inquirer categories used -- Appendix III : annual messages, 1790-2006 -- Appendix IV : inaugural addresses, 1789-2005 -- Appendix V : presidential speechwriters interviewed -- Appendix VI : the Flesch readability score.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: xviii, 178 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780195342642 (hardback : alk. paper)
019534264X (hardback : alk. paper)

SUBJECTS
Presidents -- United States -- History.
Presidents -- United States -- History.
Presidents -- United States -- History.
Rhetoric -- History. -- United States
Communication in politics -- United States -- History.
Political oratory -- United States -- History.
United States -- Politics and government.
United States -- Intellectual life.