Library of Presidential Rhetoric

Each book in our series Library of Presidential Rhetoric details and summarizes an important presidential speech in American history as well as its rhetoric elements and disciplinary analyses that have developed. Each is an important work of scholarship on the presidency, political science, and public rhetoric.

Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation, and the 1908 Governors’ Conference

Leroy G. Dorsey

The Great Silent Majority

Karlyn Kohrs Campbell

Reagan at Westminster

Robert C. Rowland, John M. Jones

Writing JFK

Thomas W. Benson

Jefferson's Call for Nationhood

Stephen Howard Browne

LBJ’s American Promise

Garth E. Pauley

Reagan at Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg

Richard J. Jensen

Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace

Ira Chernus

FDR’s First Fireside Chat

Amos Kiewe

FDR and Fear Itself

Davis W. Houck

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