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In this text, Davis W. Houck uses the historical context of the Great Depression in America to explore the relationship of rhetoric to the economy and economic recovery. This study allows him to understand rhetoric as a process rather than as a series of isolated, discrete products.

An examination of the cognitive, behavioural and linguistic dimensions of war and peace. Using case studies, it shows that political participants interact in war and peace through continuous streams of communication that reflect and construct worlds of meaning.

Franklin Roosevelt took great care to hide his polio-induced lameness. This book is an analysis of the silences surrounding Roosevelt's disability, the words he used to portray himself and his policies as powerful and health-giving, and the methods he used to maximise the appearance of strength.

With roots in propaganda studies, military history, rhetorical criticism, and peace studies, this book adds dimensions to our understanding of the waging of war by the ""Greatest Generation."" It covers archival documents, public appeals, and internal memoranda, reports, and surveys.

Demonstrates that moral and religious rhetoric is a strategic tool presidents can use to enhance their constitutional authority. This work analyzes the president's role as the nation's moral spokesman. It employs content analysis of the inaugural and annual addresses of all the presidents from George Washington through George W Bush.

Culminating a decade of conferences that have explored presidential speech, this work assesses progress and suggests directions for both the practice of presidential speech and its study. It serves as a pivotal work for scholars of public discourse and the presidency who seek to understand the shifting landscape of American political leadership.

Investigates how US presidents in the nineteenth century communicated with their publics, both congressional and popular. This book examines administrations, policies, and events. It includes an afterword that raises eight challenges to the original formulation of the rhetorical presidency and in so doing sets forth an agenda for future studies.

This book gathers an array of approaches to studying environmental rhetoric and the presidency, covering a range of administrations and a diversity of viewpoints on how the concept of the ""rhetorical presidency"" may be modified in this policy area.

For a century and a half the words of Presidents have framed, expressed, and sometimes challenged the civil rights policies of America. This book contains eleven essays that examine the ways in which American presidents and their administrations have defined the meaning of civil rights from Rutherford B Hayes to William Jefferson Clinton.

The chapters in this book (two by former White House speechwriters) give insight into the process of presidential speechwriting, from Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration to Ronald Reagan's.