TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lim,Elvin T.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The anti-intellectual presidency: the decline of presidential rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush 
AV  - E176.1 .L457 2008eb
U1  - 973.09/9 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Language
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Communication in politics
KW  - Political oratory
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The problem of presidential rhetoric -- The linguistic simplification of presidential rhetoric -- The anti-intellectual speechwriters -- The substantive impoverishment of presidential rhetoric -- Institutionalizing the anti-intellectual presidency -- Indicting the anti-intellectual presidency -- Reforming the anti-intellectual presidency -- Appendix I : the General Inquirer (GI) -- Appendix II : definitions of General Inquirer categories used -- Appendix III : annual messages, 1790-2006 -- Appendix IV : inaugural addresses, 1789-2005 -- Appendix V : presidential speechwriters interviewed -- Appendix VI : the Flesch readability score; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10254437
ER  -