The White House Speaks: Presidential Leadership as Persuasion, <i>by Craig Allen Smith, Kathy B. Smith</i>

Abstract

Preface Presidential Leadership as Persuasion The Interpretive Systems Approach to Presidential Leadership The Coalitionless President and the Pardons The Politics of Division Narrative Conflict and the Panama Canal Treaties Political Jeremiads from the Bully Pulpit Presidential Mobilization for Sacrifice The Presidency in Rhetorical Crisis Conclusions: Presidential Leadership in the 1990s Index