Reading the presidency
advances in presidential rhetoric

Introduction : the study of presidential rhetoric in uncertain times : thoughts on theory and praxis / Stephen J. Heidt -- Cartographer-in-chief : maps in televisual addresses and the Cold War president as geographic educator / Timothy Barney -- Presidential rhetoric in situ : place, presence, mediation, and circulation / Allison M. Prasch -- The "other" presidential rhetoric : rhetorical mobilization within the White House / Milene Ortega and Mary E. Stuckey -- Genre-busting : campaign speech genres and the rhetoric of third party candidates / Ryan Neville-Shepard -- The rise of comforter-in-chief : presidential responses to violence, from Reagan to Obama / Jay P. Childers & Cassandra C. Bird -- Command and communication : President Obama's policing of Bashar Al Assad's chemical weapons, August 21, 2013- September 14, 2013 / Ronald Walter Greene and Jay Alexander Frank -- Articulating the presidency / Blake Abbott -- Trolling the presidency via Twitter : the affective figurations of Donald J. Trump's digitally networked form of diatribe / Stephen J. Heidt and Damien Smith Pfister -- Pioneers, prophets and profligates : George W. Bush's presidential response to scientific resistance / Leah Ceccarelli -- President Michelle Bachelet's rhetoric of commitment / Belinda A. Stillion Southard -- Presidential sublimation : on the productive interruption of democracy's death drive / Paul Johnson -- Smart on crime : an networked institutional perspective on the Obama administration's National Drug Control Strategy / Joel M. Lemuel -- The presidential making of American womanhood, 1900-1914 / Leslie J. Harris -- Black disidentification with white liberals / Lisa Corrigan -- Afterword / David Zarefsky