This volume examines how presidents from Truman to Bush
rhetorically approached and managed political, military, judicial,
legislative, and economic crises during their presidencies. Editor
Amos Kiewe assembles new essays by communications scholars who look
at rhetoric initiated during national crises, and account for
various rhetorical developments affected by crises, changes in
presidential rhetoric, and rhetorical and situational crisis
constraints. Their studies suggest similarities in rhetoric in
different types of crises, and yield resources for postulating
patterns of crisis rhetoric.
Each chapter's author presents a crisis rhetoric case study,
analyzing initial strategies and tactics, shifts in rhetorical
tactics, adjustments of discourse to particular phases in the
crises, and unique rhetorical approaches designed to accommodate
unexpected turns of events. The contributors discuss how presidents
use rhetorical inventions, flip-flops, face-saving posturing, and
even silence to diffuse crises. Specific topics include
Eisenhower's response to the constitutional crisis in Little Rock,
Kennedy and the Berlin Wall crisis, Johnson and the Kennedy
assassination, Nixon and Watergate, and Bush and the Persian Gulf
Crisis. Recommended for political scientists and communication
theorists.
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