Elvin Lim: Anti-Intellectual Presidency

Cover: 9780199898091 | Anti-Intellectual Presidency | Elvin Lim | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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In The Anti-Intellectual Presidency, Elvin Lim draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents' ability to communicate with the public. Lim argues that the ever-increasing pressure for presidents to manage public opinion and perception has created a "pathology of vacuous rhetoric and imagery" where gesture and appearance matter more than accomplishment and fact. Lim tracks the campaign to simplify presidential discourse through presidential and speechwriting decisions made from the Truman to the present administration, explaining how and why presidents have embraced anti-intellectualism and vague platitudes as a public relations strategy. Lim sees this anti-intellectual stance as a deliberate choice rather than a reflection of presidents' intellectual limitations. Only the smart, he suggests, know how to dumb down. The result, he shows, is a dangerous debasement of our political discourse and a quality of rhetoric which has been described, charitably, as "a linguistic struggle" and, perhaps more accurately, as "dogs barking idiotically through endless nights." Sharply written and incisively argued, The Anti-Intellectual Presidency sheds new light on the murky depths of presidential oratory, illuminating both the causes and consequences of this substantive impoverishment.

Über den Autor

Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Politics at Wesleyan University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Problem of Presidential Rhetoric

2. The Linguistic Simplification of Presidential Rhetoric

3. The Anti-Intellectual Speechwriters

4. The Substantive Impoverishment of Presidential Rhetoric

5. Institutionalizing the Anti-Intellectual Presidency

6. Indicting the Anti-Intellectual Presidency

7. 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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780199898091
ISBN-10:	019989809X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lim, Elvin
Hersteller:	OUP US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Elvin Lim
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.01.2012
Gewicht:	0,31 kg