Reading the Presidency

Acknowledgments - Stephen J. Heidt: Introduction: The Study of Presidential Rhetoric in Uncertain Times: Thoughts on Theory and Praxis - Section One: Reading the President through Institutions - Timothy Barney: Cartographer-in-Chief: Maps in Televisual Addresses and the Cold War President as Geographic Educator - Allison M. Prasch: Reading the Presidency In Situ: Obama in Cuba and the Significance of Place in U.S. Presidential Public Address - Milene Ortega/Mary E. Stuckey: The Other Presidential Rhetoric: Rhetorical Mobilization within the White House - Ryan Neville-Shepard: Genre-Busting: Campaign Speech Genres and the Rhetoric of Political Outsiders - Jay P. Childers/Cassandra C. Bird: The Rise of Comforter-in-Chief: Presidential Responses to Violence Since Reagan - Section Two: Reading the Presidency through Interactions - Ronald Walter Greene/Jay Alexander Frank: Obama's Command: Chemical Weapons in Syria and the Global Duties of a Rhetorical Presidency - Blake Abbott: Unpresidented: Articulating the Presidency in the Age of Trump - Stephen J. Heidt/Damien Smith Pfister: Trump, Twitter, and the Microdiatribe: The Short Circuits of Networked Presidential Public Address - Leah Ceccarelli: Pioneers, Prophets, and Profligates: George W. Bush's Presidential Interaction with Science - Belinda A. Stillion Southard: Negotiating the Limits of a Multiparty Democracy: Michelle Bachelet's Rhetoric of Commitment - Section Three: Reading the Presidency through Interruptions - Paul Johnson: The Debt Ceiling Debacle: Presidentialism as Cruel Optimism - Joel M. Lemuel: The Discursive Antecedents to Richard Nixon's War on Drugs - Leslie J. Harris: Home-Making, Nation-Making: American Womanhood in Progressive Era Presidential Rhetoric - Lisa Corrigan: White "Honky" Liberals, Rhetorical Disidentification, and Black Power during the Johnson Administration - David Zarefsky: Afterword: Reflections on Rhetoric and the Presidency - About the Contributors.