The Prime Time Presidency

Author : Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252092091

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The Prime-Time Presidency by Shawn J. Parry-Giles Pdf

Contrasting strong women and multiculturalism with portrayals of a heroic white male leading the nation into battle, The Prime-Time Presidency explores the NBC drama The West Wing, paying particular attention to its role in promoting cultural meaning about the presidency and U.S. nationalism. Based in a careful, detailed analysis of the "first term" of The West Wing's President Josiah Bartlet, this criticism highlights the ways the text negotiates powerful tensions and complex ambiguities at the base of U.S. national identity--particularly the role of gender, race, and militarism in the construction of U.S. nationalism. Unlike scattered and disparate collections of essays, Trevor Parry-Giles and Shawn J. Parry-Giles offer a sustained, ideologically driven criticism of The West Wing. The Prime-time Presidency presents a detailed critique of the program rooted in presidential history, an appreciation of television's power as a source of political meaning, and television's contribution to the articulation of U.S. national identity.

Author : Robert E. Denton
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1988-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780275926038

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The Primetime Presidency of Ronald Reagan by Robert E. Denton Pdf

Beginning in the 1970s, the public has turned to the media for information and guidance in selecting their presidents. Television has become the primary means of getting to know the issues and candidates. This monograph examines the mediazation of the U.S. presidency, as exemplified by President Reagan's role as the great communicator. Specifically, Denton analyzes the use of television as an instrument of image-making and governing, the role of the media in contemporary politics, the impact of television on presidential politics, and the future of the presidency in the age of television. Scholars of communications studies, political science, and American politics will welcome this critical analysis of the primetime presidency.

Author : Jeremi Suri
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465093908

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The Impossible Presidency by Jeremi Suri Pdf

A bold new history of the American presidency, arguing that the successful presidents of the past created unrealistic expectations for every president since JFK, with enormously problematic implications for American politics In The Impossible Presidency, celebrated historian Jeremi Suri charts the rise and fall of the American presidency, from the limited role envisaged by the Founding Fathers to its current status as the most powerful job in the world. He argues that the presidency is a victim of its own success-the vastness of the job makes it almost impossible to fulfill the expectations placed upon it. As managers of the world's largest economy and military, contemporary presidents must react to a truly globalized world in a twenty-four-hour news cycle. There is little room left for bold vision. Suri traces America's disenchantment with our recent presidents to the inevitable mismatch between presidential promises and the structural limitations of the office. A masterful reassessment of presidential history, this book is essential reading for anyone trying to understand America's fraught political climate.

Author : Justin S. Vaughn,Jennifer Mercieca
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781623490423

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The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations by Justin S. Vaughn,Jennifer Mercieca Pdf

Campaign rhetoric helps candidates to get elected, but its effects last well beyond the counting of the ballots; this was perhaps never truer than in Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Did Obama create such high expectations that they actually hindered his ability to enact his agenda? Should we judge his performance by the scale of the expectations his rhetoric generated, or against some other standard? The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency grapples with these and other important questions. Barack Obama’s election seemed to many to fulfill Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of the “long arc of the moral universe . . . bending toward justice.” And after the terrorism, war, and economic downturn of the previous decade, candidate Obama’s rhetoric cast broad visions of a change in the direction of American life. In these and other ways, the election of 2008 presented an especially strong example of creating expectations that would shape the public’s views of the incoming administration. The public’s high expectations, in turn, become a part of any president’s burden upon assuming office. The interdisciplinary scholars who have contributed to this volume focus their analysis upon three kinds of presidential burdens: institutional burdens (specific to the office of the presidency); contextual burdens (specific to the historical moment within which the president assumes office); and personal burdens (specific to the individual who becomes president).

Author : Kristina Horn Sheeler,Karrin Vasby Anderson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781603449830

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Woman President by Kristina Horn Sheeler,Karrin Vasby Anderson Pdf

What elements of American political and rhetorical culture block the imagining—and thus, the electing—of a woman as president? Examining both major-party and third-party campaigns by women, including the 2008 campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, the authors of Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture identify the factors that limit electoral possibilities for women. Pundits have been predicting women’s political ascendency for years. And yet, although the 2008 presidential campaign featured Hillary Clinton as an early frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination and Sarah Palin as the first female Republican vice-presidential nominee, no woman has yet held either of the top two offices. The reasons for this are complex and varied, but the authors assert that the question certainly encompasses more than the shortcomings of women candidates or the demands of the particular political moment. Instead, the authors identify a pernicious backlash against women presidential candidates—one that is expressed in both political and popular culture. In Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture, Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson provide a discussion of US presidentiality as a unique rhetorical role. Within that framework, they review women’s historical and contemporary presidential bids, placing special emphasis on the 2008 campaign. They also consider how presidentiality is framed in candidate oratory, campaign journalism, film and television, digital media, and political parody.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015087529635

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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Watergate Affair, 1972-1974
ISBN : OSU:32437010059216

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Statement of Information: Presidential statements on the Watergate break-in and its investigation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. President
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Presidents
ISBN : MINN:31951T00188975L

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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States by United States. President Pdf

"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.

Author : Shawn J. Parry-Giles,Trevor Parry-Giles
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Mass media
ISBN : UOM:39015055203221

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Constructing Clinton by Shawn J. Parry-Giles,Trevor Parry-Giles Pdf

This book examines Clinton's image as it was produced by visual representations in The Man from Hope, The War Room, Primary Colors, MTV's Biorhythms, and PBS' The American President. The book uses the language of postmodernism in an attempt to make a metaphysics out of what was once just plain old propaganda. The authors teach political communication at the University of Maryland. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Justin S. Vaughn,Lilly J. Goren
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813141015

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Women and the White House by Justin S. Vaughn,Lilly J. Goren Pdf

Known as the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay earned his title by addressing sectional tensions over slavery and forestalling civil war in the United States. Today he is still regarded as one of the most important political figures in American history. As Speaker of the House of Representatives and secretary of state, Clay left an indelible mark on American politics at a time when the country's solidarity was threatened by inner turmoil, and scholars have thoroughly chronicled his political achievements. However, little attention has been paid to his extensive family legacy. In The Family Legacy of Henry Clay: In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch, Lindsey Apple explores the personal history of this famed American and examines the impact of his legacy on future generations of Clays. Apple's study delves into the family's struggles with physical and emotional problems such as depression and alcoholism. The book also analyzes the role of financial stress as the family fought to reestablish its fortune in the years after the Civil War. Apple's extensively researched volume illuminates a little-discussed aspect of Clay's life and heritage, and highlights the achievements and contributions of one of Kentucky's most distinguished families.

Author : Jack Goldsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393083514

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Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11 by Jack Goldsmith Pdf

The surprising truth behind Barack Obama's decision to continue many of his predecessor's counterterrorism policies. Conventional wisdom holds that 9/11 sounded the death knell for presidential accountability. In fact, the opposite is true. The novel powers that our post-9/11 commanders in chief assumed—endless detentions, military commissions, state secrets, broad surveillance, and more—are the culmination of a two-century expansion of presidential authority. But these new powers have been met with thousands of barely visible legal and political constraints—enforced by congressional committees, government lawyers, courts, and the media—that have transformed our unprecedentedly powerful presidency into one that is also unprecedentedly accountable. These constraints are the key to understanding why Obama continued the Bush counterterrorism program, and in this light, the events of the last decade should be seen as a victory, not a failure, of American constitutional government. We have actually preserved the framers’ original idea of a balanced constitution, despite the vast increase in presidential power made necessary by this age of permanent emergency.

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : UCLA:31158009068668

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Merchant Vessels of the United States by United States. Coast Guard Pdf

Author : Kimberly A. Williams
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438439778

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Imagining Russia by Kimberly A. Williams Pdf

Co-winner of the 2009 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women's and Gender Studies, Imagining Russia uses U.S.–Russian relations between the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a case study to examine the deployment of gendered, racialized, and heteronormative visual and narrative depictions of Russia and Russians in contemporary narratives of American nationalism and U.S. foreign policy. Through analyses of several key post-Soviet American popular and political texts, including the hit television series The West Wing, Washington D.C.'s International Spy Museum, and the legislative hearings of the Freedom Support Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Williams calls attention to the production and operation of five types of "gendered Russian imaginaries" that were explicitly used to bolster support for and legitimize U.S. geopolitical unilateralism after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, demonstrating the ways that the masculinization of U.S. military, political, and financial power after 1991 paved the way for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Author : Martin J. Medhurst
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1585446270

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The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric by Martin J. Medhurst Pdf

Culminating a decade of conferences that have explored presidential speech, The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric assesses progress and suggests directions for both the practice of presidential speech and its study. In Part One, following an analytic review of the field by Martin Medhurst, contributors address the state of the art in their own areas of expertise. Roderick P. Hart then summarizes their work in the course of his rebuttal of an argument made by political scientist George Edwards: that presidential rhetoric lacks political impact. Part Two of the volume consists of the forward-looking reports of six task forces, comprising more than forty scholars, charged with outlining the likely future course of presidential rhetoric, as well as the major questions scholars should ask about it and the tools at their disposal. The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric will serve as a pivotal work for students and scholars of public discourse and the presidency who seek to understand the shifting landscape of American political leadership.

Author : Marc Freedman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786724185

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Prime Time by Marc Freedman Pdf

Over the next three decades, the number of Americans over fifty will double, swelling to more than a quarter of the population. Already we are living thirty years longer than a century ago, with further gains expected in the coming years. The end result is a new stage of life, one as long or longer than childhood or middle age in duration, and one spent in unprecedented good health. Yet, as individuals, and as a society, we've shown little imagination or wisdom in using this great gift of a third age. Marc Freedman identifies the new longevity as not a problem to be solved, but an opportunity to be seized-provided we can engage the experience, talent, and idealism of older Americans. At a juncture when the middle-generation faces a time-famine, struggling to simultaneously raise kids and work long hours on the job, the older generation is awash in free time, poised to succeed women as the trustees of civic life in this country. In the process they stand to find new meaning and purpose in their lives, and abandon the limbo-like state unfulfilling for so many older individuals. Freedman argues that the aging phenomenon, the massive transformation that many portray as our downfall, may in fact be our best hope for renewal as a nation.