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Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush

Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush

Metcalf, Allan

Paperback

Linguistics21st Century United States HistoryUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0618443746
ISBN13: 9780618443741
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Jul 14 2004
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Perhaps more than anyone else, politicians are what they say -- and how they say it. In Presidential Voices, Metcalf examines both how the presidents have spoken to the American public and how the American public has wanted its presidents to speak.
Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Metcalf shows what contemporaries have said about the chief speakers in the White House. He explores the distinctive words that our presidents favored (and in many cases coined), along with the regional accents that livened the Oval Office. In addition, he uncovers the hidden influence of speechwriters and the changing media on how presidents present themselves to voters. He concludes his survey of presidential speech with entertaining linguistic portraits of all forty-three presidents.

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