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|a The anti-intellectual presidency :
|b the decline of presidential rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush /
|c Elvin T. Lim.
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|a Oxford :
|b Oxford University Press,
|c 2008.
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|a xviii, 178 p. :
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|c 24 cm.
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|a Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-174) and index.
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|a The problem of presidential rhetoric -- The linguistic simplification of presidential rhetoric -- The anti-intellectual speechwriters -- The substantive impoverishment of presidential rhetoric -- Institutionalizing the anti-intellectual presidency -- Indicting the anti-intellectual presidency -- 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.
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