Lim, Elvin T.
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency : The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Problem of Presidential Rhetoric
2. Rhetorical Simplification and the Anti-intellectual Presidency
3. Creating the Anti-intellectual Presidency
4. Substantive Impoverishment and the Anti-intellectual Presidency
5. Institutionalizing the Anti-intellectual Presidency
6. Defending and Indicting the Anti-intellectual Presidency
7. Reforming the Anti-intellectual Presidency
Appendix I: The General Inquirer (GI)
Appendix II: Definitions of GI 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
Acknowledgments
1. The Problem of Presidential Rhetoric
2. Rhetorical Simplification and the Anti-intellectual Presidency
3. Creating the Anti-intellectual Presidency
4. Substantive Impoverishment and the Anti-intellectual Presidency
5. Institutionalizing the Anti-intellectual Presidency
6. Defending and Indicting the Anti-intellectual Presidency
7. Reforming the Anti-intellectual Presidency
Appendix I: The General Inquirer (GI)
Appendix II: Definitions of GI 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
- Author(s)
- Lim, Elvin T.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780199711611