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EBOOK Anti-Intellectual Presidency:The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to Ge

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199927098
EAN: A4C8BEE8EB
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Stron: 208
Data wydania: 2008
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The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush
Lim argues that the ever-increasing tendency for presidents to crowd out argument        in presidential rhetoric with applause-rendering platitudes and partisan punch-lines        was concertedly implemented by the modern White House. Through a series of        interviews with former presidential speechwriters, he shows that the        anti-intellectual stance was a deliberate choice rather than a reflection of        presidents' intellectual limitations. Only the smart, he suggests, know how to "e;dumb        down."e;

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