Present at the founding: The rhetorical presidency in historical perspective

Before the Rhetorical Presidency

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 35-41

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References (8)

1. Jeffrey K. Tulis, The Rhetorical Presidency (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1987).
2. James Ceaser, Glen Thurow, Jeffrey Tulis, and Joseph M. Bessette, "The Rise of the Rhetorical Presidency," Presidential Studies Quarterly 11 (1981): 158-71, which was the forerunner to Tulis's book.
3. This and all other quotations by Professor Laracey come from his chapter in this book. Full documentation for his claims is provided in Mel Laracey, Presidents and the People: The Partisan Story of Going Public (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002).
4. See Stephen E. Lucas and Martin J. Medhurst, eds., Words of a Century: The Top 100 American Speeches, 1900-1999 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
5. Thomas B. Reed, ed., Modern Eloquence, 15 vols. (Philadelphia: J. D. Morris, 1900- 1903).
6. See Stephen E. Lucas, "George Washington and the Rhetoric of Presidential Leadership," in The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership, ed. Leroy G. Dorsey (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002), 42-72.
7. Laracey, too, mistakes the nature of Washington's rhetorical activity, characterizing him as a president who did not go public. See Laracey, Presidents and the People, 139-46.
8. For fuller discussion, see Stephen E. Lucas, "Genre Criticism and Historical Context: The Case of George Washington's First Inaugural Address," Southern Speech Communication Journal 51 (1986): 354-70.