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Article: Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents.(Book review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents. By Colleen J. Shogan. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. 223 pp.
Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents has much to offer the contemporary student of rhetoric, presidential discourse, political science, and government regarding the ideas of phronesis, moralizing rhetoric, and the U.S. presidency. Colleen J. Shogan utilizes a content analysis of all presidential annual and inaugural addresses (through 2003) to help determine the 10 cases that she then examines using a rhetorical approach. She states that the purpose of the book "is to determine how moral and religious arguments collectively contribute to ...