The Modern presidency and crisis rhetoric

Abstract

Series Foreword by Robert E. Denton, Jr. Preface Introduction by Amos Kiewe Declaring a National Emergency: Truman's Rhetorical Crisis and the Great Debate of 1951 by Robert L. Ivie Eisenhower, Little Rock, and the Rhetoric of Crisis by Martin J. Medhurst Crisis as Pretext: John F. Kennedy and the Rhetorical Construction of the Berlin Crisis by Enrico Pucci, Jr. Lyndon B. Johnson's Crisis Rhetoric after the Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Securing Legitimacy and Leadership by Kurt Ritter Richard Nixon and the Personalization of Crisis by Carole Blair and Davis W. Houck The Coalitional Crisis of the Ford Presidency: The Pardons Reconsidered by Craig Allen Smith and Kathy B. Smith Narrative Character in Presidential Crisis Rhetoric: Jimmy Carter and the Iranian Hostage Crisis by Charles J.G. Griffin Creating His Own Constraint: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Crisis by Greg Dickinson From a Rhetorical Trap to Capitulation and Obviation: The Crisis Rhetoric of George Bush's Read My Lips: No New Taxes by Amos Kiewe The Battle for the Past: George Bush and the Gulf Crisis by Mark A. Pollock Bibliography Index