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Title The bully pulpit, presidential speeches, and the shaping of public policy / edited by Jeffrey S. Ashley and Marla J. Jarmer
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages)
Contents Introduction; 1 Theodore Roosevelt; 2 William Howard Taft and the Conservation of the Republican Party in 1912; 3 Woodrow Wilson; 4 Warren G. Harding; 5 Calvin Coolidge; 6 Herbert Clark Hoover; 7 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Inauguration of the New Deal; 8 Harry S. Truman; 9 Dwight Eisenhower; 10 John F. Kennedy; 11 Lyndon Baines Johnson; 12 Richard Nixon and American Indian Policy; 13 Gerald Ford; 14 Jimmy Carter; 15 Ronald Reagan and American Drug Policy; 16 George H.W. Bush and the Persian Gulf War; 17 Bill Clinton; 18 George W. Bush; 19 Barack Obama and Hate Crime Legislation
Summary The Bully Pulpit, Presidential Speeches, and the Shaping of Public Policy explores how presidents use speeches to shape and influence public policy. Coming from a wide range of disciplines, each chapter in this edited collection examines a selected speech delivered by every president from Roosevelt through Barack Obama to show how language has been instrumental in directing policy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index
Notes English
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Subject Presidents -- United States -- Messages.
Presidents -- United States -- History
Communication in politics -- United States
Policy sciences.
Communication in politics
Policy sciences
Politics and government
Presidents
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ashley, Jeffrey S., 1965- editor.
Jarmer, Marla J., 1968- editor.
LC no. 2020739463
ISBN 9781498501965
1498501966