Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index.
Contents:
Barack Obama and hate crime legislation : The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act / Grant Walsh-Haines. William Howard Taft and the conservation of the Republican Party in 1912 / Eric Morris -- Woodrow Wilson : women's suffrage / Marla J. Jarmer -- Warren G. Harding : return to normalcy / David H. Carwell -- Calvin Coolidge : regime articulation through expectations / Joshua M. Scacco -- Herbert Clark Hoover : farm relief / Stephen F. Robar -- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the inauguration of the New Deal / Richard G. Frederick -- Harry S. Truman : veto of Taft-Hartley Act / Michael Shirley -- Dwight Eisenhower : farewell address / Paul Franz Testa -- John F. Kennedy : civil rights / Marita Gronnvoll -- Lyndon Baines Johnson : Vietnam and "peace without conquest" / Edmund Wehrle -- Richard Nixon and American Indian policy / Jeffrey S. Ashley -- Gerald Ford : plan to whip inflation now / Jason A. Edwards -- Jimmy Carter : human rights as "the soul of our foreign policy" / Teresa Maria Linda Scholz -- Ronald Reagan and American drug policy / Emily Schnurr -- George H.W. Bush and the Persian Gulf War / Elizabeth A. Dudash-Buskirk and Nicholas J. Nickols -- Bill Clinton : race and the crisis of the American spirit / Kevin R. Anderson -- George W. Bush : terrorism and American security / Dani May Nier-Weber -- Barack Obama and hate crime legislation : The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act / Grant Walsh-Haines.
Summary:
"By examining speeches from Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and every president in between, The Bully Pulpit ... shows how language has been instrumental in directing policy. Each chapter examines the situation or background of the problem, includes a transcript of the speech the president delivered, and concludes with an analysis of the particular frame that was used and the eventual outcome or policy direction inspired by the speech"--Back cover.
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