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What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
Scott McClellan
PublicAffairs, 2008
He Seems Sincere
+ A Great Overview of the Permanent Campaign
+ Who really ran this country
I got interested in this book when I saw Scott McClellan on "Meet the Press" one morning. It was either Tim Russert's last or next-to-last show before he died suddenly.
I didn't know what to expect from Mr. McClellan, so I watched. I was amazed to see a guy that seemed to be expressing genuine ...
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Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical Statesman (Presidential Rhetoric Series, No. 9)
Robert Alexander Kraig
Texas A&M University Press, 2004
Reconsidering Wilson
Kraig effectively resuscitates Wilson, debunking the myth of him as a misty-eyed idealist and revealing him to be an effective orator who moved the public with his words. One problem with tracing cause-and-effect in the social world is that sometimes good strategy and heroic effort produce ...
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The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008
Mark Halperin, John F. Harris
Random House, 2006
The Way to Win
+ Great book - politics today, like it or not (hope you don't)
+ Good for political junkies; some of their 2008 predictions already rendered irrelevant
The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 is my first attempt to understanding the Political System. I found it very informative in some back history I have missed in my American Education....great history lessons on Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, George Bush, Democrats and ...
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UNION OF WORDS: A History of Presidential Eloquence
Wayne Fields
Free Press, 1996
Leaders use words as tools to build a relationship with the populace, and often it is their words that are remembered and trusted rather than their actions. U.S. presidents have ample opportunity to address the public and, through these speeches, they can inspire confidence, ease the pain of war or disaster, and establish a national direction--often all in one delivery. As Wayne Fields ...
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Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, Updated and Expanded Edition
W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
A classic work made up of classic works
+ Best Speech Compilation - Ever
+ Lend me your ears and eyes
+ A Great Resource
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The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. ...
Elvin T. Lim
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
Lim provides the proof
This book offers compelling proof that presidents have dumbed down their public speech in the last two centuries. It is one of the very few political books I've read that is not at all partisan - Lim places equal blame on Clinton as he does on Bush. Lim nevertheless makes it clear that because ...
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Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (Vintage)
Douglas L. Wilson
Vintage, 2007
A Scholarly Analysis readable by Anyone
+ Lincoln's words
+ Lincoln's Sword
+ Words that moved a nation
+ First-rate work
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On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit
George C. Edwards III
Yale University Press, 2006
Great Political Science research
+ Fascinating Topic
This book represents a wonderful work of political science. I use it in my graduate seminar on the Presidency. Edwards uses solid empirical evidence from the Reagan and Clinton Presidencies to solidly dismiss the conventional wisdom which suggests the powers of the bully pulpit provide the ...
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The Sound of Leadership: Presidential Communication in the Modern Age
Roderick P. Hart
University Of Chicago Press, 1989
Why did Gerald Ford speak in public once every six hours during 1976? Why did no president spreak in Massachusetts during one ten-year period? Why did Jimmy Carter conduct public ceremonies four times more often than Harry Truman? Why are television viewers two-and-a-half times more likely to see a president speak on the nightly news than to hear him speak? The Sound of Leadership answers ...
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White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters
Robert Schlesinger
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Great Read about Great Speech
+ Great lessons for any speech writer
+ good stories- added a key point?
+ interesting perspective
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Presidential Travel: The Journey from George Washington to George W. Bush
Richard J. Ellis
University Press of Kansas, 2008
In office less than half a year, President George Washington undertook an arduous month-long tour of New England to promote his new government and to dispel fears of monarchy. More than two hundred years later, American presidents still regularly traverse the country to advance their political goals and demonstrate their connection to the people.In this first book-length study of the history of ...
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Confessions of a White House Ghost Writer: Five Presidents and Other Political Adventures
James C. Humes
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1997
Interesting memoirs.
+ Interesting if a little overblown
The author, "lawyer, legislator, diplomat, author,
historian, actor, professor, and White House
speechwriter", recipient of the Order of the
British Empire and dance-partner with Queen
Elizabeth, seems to have been everywhere and met
everyone, most notably the several U.S. Presidents for who ...
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FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address (The Library of Presidential Rhetoric)
Davis W. Houck
Texas A&M University Press, 2002
Absolutely fascinating
While researching a book about the 1936 murder of the writer Carl Taylor, I came across "FDR and Fear Itself," a book that talks quite a bit about Raymond Moley, FDR's speechwriter who would later become Carl Taylor's editor. I was interested in reading it, and I was not disappointed. In fact, of ...
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Leadership Without Easy Answers
Ronald Heifetz
Harvard University Press, 1998
Classic leadership text
+ McKinsey's Marvin Bower's own recommendation...
+ Thought provoking
+ Best Leadership book I have read
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What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era
Peggy Noonan
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
What a writer! VERY good read.
+ Best of the Best
+ She's a goddess!
+ The girl behind Reagans' words
+ Insight from a truly unique perspective
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