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The Modern Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric examines how presidents from Truman to Bush rhetorically approached and managed political, military, judicial, legislative, and economic crises during their presidencies.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword by Robert E. Denton, Jr.
Preface
Introduction by Amos Kiewe
Declaring a National Emergency: Truman's Rhetorical Crisis and the Great Debate of 1951 by Robert L. Ivie
Eisenhower, Little Rock, and the Rhetoric of Crisis by Martin J. Medhurst
Crisis as Pretext: John F. Kennedy and the Rhetorical Construction of the Berlin Crisis by Enrico Pucci, Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson's Crisis Rhetoric after the Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Securing Legitimacy and Leadership by Kurt Ritter
Richard Nixon and the Personalization of Crisis by Carole Blair and Davis W. Houck
The Coalitional Crisis of the Ford Presidency: The Pardons Reconsidered by Craig Allen Smith and Kathy B. Smith
Narrative Character in Presidential Crisis Rhetoric: Jimmy Carter and the Iranian Hostage Crisis by Charles J.G. Griffin
Creating His Own Constraint: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Crisis by Greg Dickinson
From a Rhetorical Trap to Capitulation and Obviation: The Crisis Rhetoric of George Bush's "Read My Lips: No New Taxes" by Amos Kiewe
The Battle for the Past: George Bush and the Gulf Crisis by Mark A. Pollock
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

AMOS KIEWE is an Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at Syracuse University. He is the co-author, with Davis W. Houck, of two books, Shining City On a Hill: Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric (Praeger, 1991), and Actor, Ideologue, Politican: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan (Greenwood Press, 1993).

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?. . .is a useful addition to the literature on presidential power. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty; practitioner.?-Choice

." . .is a useful addition to the literature on presidential power. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty; practitioner."-Choice