Presidents in culture : the meaning of presidential communication

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Label: Presidents in culture : the meaning of presidential communication

Title remainder: the meaning of presidential communication

Statement of responsibility: David Michael Ryfe

Ryfe, David, 1966-

Ryfe, David, 1966-

History

Language: eng

Summary: Annotation

Frontiers in political communication, v. 9.

Action: digitized

Biography type: contains biographical information

Cataloging source: N$T

Dewey number: 973/.09/9

Illustrations: illustrations

Index: index present

LC call number: E176.1

LC item number: .R98 2005eb

Literary form: non fiction

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dictionaries
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Series statement: Frontiers in political communication,

Series volume: v. 9

Summary expansion: Whether writing from the perspective of rhetoric or political science, scholars of presidential communication often assume that the ultimate meaning of presidential rhetoric lies in whether it achieves policy success. In this book, David Ryfe argues that presidential rhetoric has many meanings, but that one of the most important is how it rhetorically constructs the practice of presidential communication itself. Drawing upon an examination of presidential rhetoric across the twentieth century, from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton, Ryfe surveys the shifting meaning of presidential communication. In so doing, he shows that what is often called the "public" or "rhetorical" presidency is not one fixed entity, but rather a continuously negotiated discursive construct

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