The anti-intellectual presidency [electronic resource] : the decline of presidential rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush / Elvin T. Lim.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: xviii, 178 p. : illISBN:- 019534264X (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780195342642 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- Communication in politics -- United States -- History
- Political oratory -- United States -- History
- Presidents -- United States -- History
- Presidents -- United States -- Intellectual life
- Presidents -- United States -- Language -- History
- Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- United States -- Intellectual life
- United States -- Politics and government
- 973.09/9 22
- E176.1 .L457 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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