Eloquence in an Electronic Age: The Transformation of Political SpeechmakingOxford University Press, 1988 M07 21 - 320 páginas In a book that blends anecdote with analysis, Kathleen Hall Jamieson--author of the award-winning Packaging the Presidency--offers a perceptive and often disturbing account of the transformation of political speechmaking. Jamieson addresses such fundamental issues about public speaking as what talents and techniques differentiate eloquent speakers from non-eloquent speakers. She also analyzes the speeches of modern presidents from Truman to Reagan and of political players from Daniel Webster to Mario Cuomo. Ranging from the classical orations of Cicero to Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, this lively, well-documented volume contains a wealth of insight into public speaking, contemporary characteristics of eloquence, and the future of political discourse in America. |
Contenido
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3 The Flame of Oratory The Fireside Chat | 43 |
4 The Effeminate Style | 67 |
5 The Memorable Phrase The Memorable Picture | 90 |
6 Dramatizing and Storytelling | 118 |
7 Conversation and SelfRevelation | 165 |
8 The Divorce Between Speech and Thought | 201 |
9 Mating the Best of the Old and the New | 238 |
Notes | 257 |
Bibliography | 269 |
Index | 293 |
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Eloquence in an Electronic Age: The Transformation of Political Speechmaking Kathleen Hall Jamieson Vista previa limitada - 1990 |
Eloquence in an Electronic Age: The Transformation of Political Speechmaking Kathleen Hall Jamieson Vista de fragmentos - 1988 |
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Página 105 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world : that no nation should seek to extend its policy over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own policy, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
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