Title Presidential campaign rhetoric in an age of confessional politics / Brian T. Kaylor.

Publication Info.	Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource (x, 255 pages).
Series	Lexington studies in political communication
	Lexington studies in political communication.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.
Contents	Carter and Reagan -- Bush and Clinton -- W. Bush and Obama -- Confessional politics -- Societal religious-political shifts -- Implications from the confessional booth.
Summary	When a Bible-quoting Sunday School teacher, Jimmy Carter, won the 1976 presidential election, it marked the start of a new era of presidential campaign discourse. The successful candidates since then have followed Carter's lead in publicly testifying about their personal religious beliefs and invoking God to justify their public policy positions and their political visions. With this new confessional political style, the candidates have repudiated the former perspective of a civil-religious contract thatkept political leaders from being too religious and religious leaders from being too politi.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Communication in politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Political campaigns -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Communication in politics -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
	Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
	Political campaigns -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
	Presidents -- United States -- Election.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
	Political science.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
	Communication in politics. (OCoLC)fst00870243
	Political campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01069212
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Presidents -- Election. (OCoLC)fst01075747
	Rhetoric -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst01096959
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	Since 1900
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Kaylor, Brian. Presidential campaign rhetoric in an age of confessional politics. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2011 9780739148785 0739148788 (DLC) 2010041559 (OCoLC)664667193
ISBN	9780739148808 (electronic bk.)
	073914880X (electronic bk.)

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