| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
A readable analysis of 25 momentous presidential speeches that provides context and understanding of events and history, illustrated with facsimiles of supporting documents, notes, and drafts that together formed the final speech. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; President George Washington; Farewell Address to the American People; President Thomas Jefferson; First Inaugural Address; President James Monroe; Seventh Annual Message to Congress; President Abraham Lincoln; First Inaugural Address; President Abraham Lincoln; Second Inaugural Address; President Theodore Roosevelt; Address at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Office Building of the House of Representatives; President Woodrow Wilson; Presidential Address to Joint Session of Congress; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; First Inaugural Address. |
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President Franklin Delano RooseveltState of the Union Address; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Presidential Address to Joint Session of Congress; President Harry S. Truman; Presidential Address to Joint Session of Congress-; President Dwight David Eisenhower; Farewell Address to the American People; President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Inaugural Address; President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Address at Rice University; President Lyndon Baines Johnson; Presidential Address to Joint Session of Congress; President Richard Milhous Nixon; Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam. |
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President Ronald Wilson ReaganAddress on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day; President Ronald Wilson Reagan; Address to the Nation on the Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger; President Ronald Wilson Reagan; Address on East-West Relations; President George Herbert Walker Bush; Inaugural Address; Bibliography; Photo Credits. |
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Presidents -- United States -- Language -- History.
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Presidents -- United States -- Messages.
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Political oratory -- United States -- History.
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- History and criticism.
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United States -- History.
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REFERENCE -- General.
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Political oratory. (OCoLC)fst01069380
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Presidents. (OCoLC)fst01075723
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Presidents -- Language.
(OCoLC)fst01075777
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01096959
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American. (OCoLC)fst01129325
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vilade, C. Edwin. President's speech. Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, 2012 9780762779819 (DLC) 2012030570 (OCoLC)783147258 |
| ISBN |
9780762790234 (electronic bk.) |
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0762790237 (electronic bk.) |
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9780762790241 (electronic bk.) |
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0762790245 (electronic bk.) |
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