Beyond the rhetorical presidency

Introduction. A tale of two constructs : The rhetorical presidency versus presidential rhetoric / Martin J. Medhurst

Part I. Rhetoric and the presidency

Revising the rhetorical presidency / Jeffrey K. Tulis

Dimensions of presidential character / Glen E. Thurow

The presidency in the age of secondary orality / Bruce E. Gronbeck

Desktop demos : New communication technologies and the future of the rhetorical presidency / Thomas W. Benson

Part II. Case studies in presidential rhetoric

Lyndon Johnson and the problem of politics : A study in conversation / Roderick P. Hart and Kathleen E. Kendall

The invention of Nixon / Edwin Black

Reagan, Vietnam, and Central America : Public memory and the politics of fragmentation / G. Thomas Goodnight

Tragic fear and the rhetorical presidency : Combating evil in the Persian Gulf / Robert L. Ivie

The rhetorical presidency : A two-person career / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell

Part III. Critique and commentary

Presidential rhetoric : What difference does it make? / George C. Edwards IIIAfterword :The ways of rhetoric / Martin J. Medhurst.