The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis

by Denise M. Bostdorff

Book Overview

The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis examines presidential crisis management--or the way U.S. presidents portray foreign crises to the American public--as a potent tool for the accumulation, and at times the forfeiture, of political power. Arguing that it is largely through presidential communication that foreign crises become "real" for American citizens, Bostdorff does not claim that presidents fabricate crises but rather...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872499685
• ISBN13: 9780872499683
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"