The Rhetorical Presidency (Princeton Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (716 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691178178 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Jeffrey K. His books include Legacies of Losing in American Politics. Russell Muirhead is the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics at Dartmouth College. Tulis teaches in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin
Modern presidents regularly appeal over the heads of Congress to the people at large to generate support for public policies. Extending a tradition of American political writing that begins with The Federalist and continues with Woodrow Wilson’s Congressional Government, The Rhetorical Presidency remains a pivotal work in its field.. Now with a new foreword by Russell Muirhead and a new afterword by the author, this landmark work probes political pathologies and analyzes the dilemmas of presidential statecraft. The Rhetorical Presidency 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
A MUST READ FOR MODERN TIMES Jeff Becker Here is a critically important work on a major piece of the meteoric expansion of the executive branch of government over the legislative and judicial. Mr. Tulis carefully guides his readers over this under appreciated terrain of how our 20th century presidents have succeeded in imposing direct democracy from the Oval Office and the teleprompter. A must read for those concerned for preserving the remaining vestiges of republican government.. "Excellent -- an absolute must-have." according to Newsman78. Tulis has written a brilliant account of the changing styles of presidential rhetoric. His essential argument is that the Framers intended the President to use rhetoric only to speak directly to Congress, rarely if ever to the masses, and always to put his ideas in a constitutional framework. But post-Woodrow Wilson, presidents speak directly to the public, even when ostensibly speaking to Congress, and have tried to overcome the constitutional barriers on their po. Four Stars Is is a very good book on presidencies, especially on speeches and meanings.
Upward, that is The Rhetorical Presidency has proven to be even better as political development crystal ball than it was as a rear view mirror."--John J. This is an exemplary work of mutually supportive normative argument and empirical investigation. Jeffrey Tulis's The Rhetorical Presidency stands as one of the benchmarks of the new formulation. Tulis's quantitative analysis is motivated by concern for the health of the American republic, not by a banal attempt to be 'scientific.' The work is a must for all undergraduate libraries."--S.E. Ten years later, Critical Review published a 20-year retrospective on the work, with another edited volume plumbing the nuances of the book’s thesis following (Friedman 2007; Medhurst 2008)."--David Crockett, Presidential Studies Quarterly. Theodore Roosevelt changed the practice, and Woodrow Wilson provided the rationale for speaking 'the common meaning of the common voice.' The drawbacks of th