This volume examines how presidents from Truman to Bush rhetorically approached and managed political, military, judicial, legislative, and economic crises during their presidencies. Editor Amos Kiewe assembles new essays by communications scholars who look at rhetoric initiated during national crises, and account for various rhetorical developments affected by crises, changes in presidential rhetoric, and rhetorical and situational crisis constraints. Their studies suggest similarities in rhetoric in different types of crises, and yield resources for postulating patterns of crisis rhetoric. Each chapter's author presents a crisis rhetoric case study, analyzing initial strategies and tactics, shifts in rhetorical tactics, adjustments of discourse to particular phases in the crises, and unique rhetorical approaches designed to accommodate unexpected turns of events. The contributors discuss how presidents use rhetorical inventions, flip-flops, face-saving posturing, and even silence to diffuse crises. Specific topics include Eisenhower's response to the constitutional crisis in Little Rock, Kennedy and the Berlin Wall crisis, Johnson and the Kennedy assassination, Nixon and Watergate, and Bush and the Persian Gulf Crisis. Recommended for political scientists and communication theorists.
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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
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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.
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ISBN
9780275941765
Publisert
1993-11-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Praeger Publishers Inc
Vekt
652 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
288

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Biographical note

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).