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"In a Perilous Hour" The Public Address of John F. Kennedy

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Steven R. Goldzwig, George N. Dionisopoulos

Foreword by Halford R. Ryan

Book Code: GLW/

ISBN: 0-313-27770-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27770-2

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240 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 7/30/1995

List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £54.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Great American Orators

Series Number: 22

Endorsement From
Professor David Henry
California Polytechnic State University: Professors Goldzwig and Dionisopoulos provide here one of the strongest contributions yet to the Great American Orators Series. While previous research in the vast literature on Kennedy consistently mentions JFK's oratorical greatness, they note, no extant scholarship either delineates the dimensions of his rhetorical skill or explicates the link between public discourse and policy making during his presidency. The authors promise such an enterprise, and they deliver on that promise. This is an excellent book in support of an original thesis. The authors' case is compellingly argued, persuasively documented, and clearly written.
Endorsement From
Martin J. Medhurst
Texas A&M University: This important study should be required reading for all students of Cold War rhetoric, presidential discourse, and the Kennedy administration. Drawing on primary sources, the authors paint a chilling picture of the uses and abuses of rhetoric at the highest levels of government. More than a paean to eloquence, this book is a meditation on our long national self-imprisonment within the prison-house of language, imagery, and cultural memory.
Endorsement From
Theodore O. Windt
Professor of Communication
University of Pittsburgh: An excellent introduction and overview of the rhetoric of Kennedy. The authors concentrate on major rhetorical events in the administration...and render reasoned judgements based on intensive research.

Description: This first book-length critical analysis of Kennedy's public address defines how he aroused Americans to rise to the opportunities and challenges that he defined for them. This rigorously researched study offers an in-depth analysis of the development of President Kennedy as a public speaker and a balanced view of his civil rights, foreign policy, presidential, and other types of speeches. Eight speech texts accompany the analysis. This reference and teaching tool also offers a selected chronology of major speeches along with a bibliography of important primary and secondary sources. Designed for students, teachers, and professionals in the fields of rhetoric, political communication, presidential studies, and American history.

Table of Contents:

Series Foreword by Bernard K. Duffy and Halford R. Ryan
Foreword by Halford R. Ryan
Preface
Acknowledgments
Critical Analysis
John F. Kennedy: A Rhetorical Introduction
A New Beginning
Kennedy and Civil Rights
President Kennedy's Foreign Policy Discourse: A Rhetoric of Romantic Pragmatism
Conclusion
Collected Speeches
Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 12, 1960
Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 20, 1961
Address to the Nation on the Berlin Crisis, July 25, 1961
Address to the Nation on the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 22, 1962
Address to the Nation on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963
Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963
Address to the Nation on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, July 26, 1963
Chronology of Major Presidential Speeches
Selected Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 95-2095

LCC Class: E842

Dewey Class: 973.922


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