The Inaugural Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents
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The Inaugural Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents

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The Inaugural Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents

About this book

The essays in Halford Ryan's The Inaugrual Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents explore how presidents have used their addresses to empower themselves in office. The volume's construct holds that the president delivers persuasive speeches to move the Congress and the people, and to move the people to move the Congress if it is intransigent. Even on Inauguration Day, a largely ceremonial occasion, the president seeks acquiescence and action from Congress and the people in his first rhetorical deed as the nation's chief executive officer. Since scholars agree that the rhetorical presidency arose in the twentieth century with Theodore Roosevelt, the book commences with Roosevelt's address, followed by all subsequent presidents' inaugurals--including that of Bill Clinton. The authors' methodology applies classical rhetoric to the nexus of political discourse--the interrelationships between the speaker, the speech, and the audience--discussing vox populi, elocutio, inventio, and actio. Each of the chapters analyzes the political situation with regard to political purpose, giving special attention to genre criticism and to the themes of campaign rhetoric that were or were not carried forth into the inaugural address. The essayists explicate the evolution of each inaugural's preparation, criticize its delivery, and evaluate its persuasive strengths and weaknesses by accounting for its reception by the media and by the American people. Recommended for scholars of political communication and rhetoric, political science, history, and presidential studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Series Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. President Theodore Roosevelt's Inaugural Address, 1905
  6. 2. President William Howard Taft's Inaugural Address, 1909
  7. 3. President Woodrow Wilson's First Inaugural Address, 1913
  8. 4. President Woodrow Wilson's Second Inaugural Address, 1917
  9. 5. President Warren G. Harding's Inaugural Address, 1921
  10. 6. President Calvin Coolidge's Inaugural Address, 1925
  11. 7. President Herbert Hoover's Inaugural Address, 1929
  12. 8. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address, 1933
  13. 9. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Second Inaugural Address, 1937
  14. 10. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Third Inaugural Address, 1941
  15. 11. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fourth Inaugural Address, 1945
  16. 12. President Harry S. Truman's Inaugural Address, 1949
  17. 13. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's First Inaugural Address, 1953
  18. 14. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Second Inaugural Address, 1957
  19. 15. President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, 1961
  20. 16. President Lyndon B. Johnson's Inaugural Address, 1965
  21. 17. President Richard Nixon's First Inaugural Address, 1969
  22. 18. President Richard Nixon's Second Inaugural Address, 1973
  23. 19. President Gerald R. Ford's Inaugural Address, 1974
  24. 20. President Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address, 1977
  25. 21. President Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address, 1981
  26. 22. President Ronald Reagan's Second Inaugural Address, 1985
  27. 23. President George Bush's Inaugural Address, 1989
  28. 24. President Bill Clinton's Inaugural Address, 1993
  29. Bibliography
  30. Index
  31. About the Editor and Contributors