The Rhetorical Presidency

New Edition

Jeffrey K. Tulis

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780691022956, 9780691077512
• eBook ISBN: 9781400888368
• Topic: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Subtopic: Governo americano

Modern presidents regularly appeal over the heads of Congress to the people at large to generate support for public policies. The Rhetorical Presidency makes the case that this development, born at the outset of the twentieth century, is the product of conscious political choices that fundamentally transformed the presidency and the meaning of American governance. Now with a new foreword by Russell Muirhead and a new afterword by the author, this landmark work probes political pathologies and analyzes the dilemmas of presidential statecraft. Extending a tradition of American political writing that begins with The Federalist and continues with Woodrow Wilson's Congressional Government, The Rhetorical Presidency remains a pivotal work in its field.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword by Russell Muirhead
• 1. Introduction: The Rhetorical Presidency
• 2. The Old Way: Founding and Forms
• 3. The Old Way: Developed and Expressed
• 4. The Middle Way: Statesmanship as Moderation
• 5. The New Way: Leadership as Interpretation
• 6. Limits of Leadership
• 7. Dilemmas of Governance
• Afterword
• Index