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The anti-intellectual presidency : the decline of presidential rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush

Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. The Problem of Presidential Rhetoric. 2. Rhetorical Simplification and the Anti-intellectual Presidency. 3. Creating the Anti-intellectual Presidency. 4. Substantive Impoverishment and the Anti-intellectual Presidency. 5. Institutionalizing the Anti-intellectual Presidency. 6. Defending and Indicting the Anti-intellectual Presidency. 7. Reforming the Anti-intellectual Presidency. Appendix I: The General Inquirer (GI). Appendix II: Definitions of GI Categories Used. Appendix III: Annual Messages, 1790-2006. Appendix IV: Inaugural Addresses, 1789-2005. Appendix V: Pr.

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