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Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour - Rhetoric, Public Opinion, and the League of Nations (Hardcover)
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Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour - Rhetoric, Public Opinion, and the League of Nations (Hardcover)
Series: Library of Presidential Rhetoric
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On September 3, 1919, Woodrow Wilson embarked upon one of the most
ambitious and controversial speaking tours in the history of
American politics: a grueling 8,000-mile, twenty-two-day tour
across the Midwest and Far West in support of the League of
Nations. Historians still debate Wilson's motivations for touring,
but most agree with Thomas Bailey that the tour proved a
""disastrous blunder."" Not only did Wilson collapse before
completing it but the treaty likely would have been defeated even
if the tour had succeeded. In this masterful work, J. Michael Hogan
offers the first detailed analysis of Wilson's speeches on the
tour, including the most celebrated speech of the campaign, his
address in Pueblo, Colorado. Assessing the tour in light of
Wilson's own scholarly writings, Hogan provides a new understanding
of this watershed event in the history of American public address.
Over the course of the tour, Hogan argues, Wilson abandoned his own
principles of oratorical statesmanship and increasingly resorted to
the techniques of the propagandist and the demagogue. In the
process, he subverted what he himself called the ""common counsel""
of public deliberation and foreshadowed some of the worst
tendencies of the modern rhetorical presidency.
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