In a Perilous Hour

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STEVEN R. GOLDZWIG, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Marquette University, has written at length about rhetorical theory and criticism and about communication and the presidency.

GEORGE N. DIONISOPOULOS, Associate Professor in the School of Communication at San Diego State University, has published numerous articles in scholarly journals about political communication.

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

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