The Rhetorical Presidencyin Retrospect

Bibliographic Data

ID6251610
AuthorsJeffrey K Tulis (corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume19
Issue2-3
Pages481-500
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08913810701766397
OpenAlexW1981467433
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited13

The Rhetorical Presidency is not, principally, a book about rhetoric or the presidency. Rather, rhetoric and the presidency are windows on the American constitutional order as a whole. Critics have greatly enhanced the historical narrative but have not undermined the principal historical and theoretical claims. Recent changes in the American polity are best understood as exacerbations of problems described in the book, rather than as fundamental alterations of our political world. Contemporary political pathologies can still be diagnosed as a product of the contending imperatives of the new constitutional order that has been layered on top of the old one. And while problems may be attenuated by a creative melding of the old and new orders, they cannot be solved within the confines of American constitutionalism, as it has been traditionally understood

Constitutionalism · Democracy · Law and economics · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Polity · Presidency · Principal (computer security · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American Literature and Culture · Canadian Identity and History · Law · Philosophy

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