U.S. Presidents as Orators

HALFORD RYAN, Professor of English and Public Speaking at Washington and Lee University, is well known for his many books and articles dealing with presidential rhetoric and the history and criticism of American public address. His recent works published by Greenwood Press include The Inaugural Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents (1993), American Orators of the Twentieth Century: Critical Studies and Sources (1987), American Orators Before 1900: Critical Studies and Sources (1987) coedited with Bernard Duffy, Harry S. Truman: Presidential Rhetoric (1992), Franklin D. Roosevelt's Rhetorical Presidency (1988), and Oratorical Encounters: Selected Studies and Sources on Twentieth Century Political Accusations and Apologies (1988). He also serves as Adviser for Greenwood's Great American Orators Series.

Acknowledgments
An Introduction to Presidential Oratory
U.S. Presidents as Orators
George Washington by Stephen E. Lucas and Susan Zaeske
John Adams by James M. Farrell
Thomas Jefferson by Daniel Ross Chandler
James Madison by Lois J. Einhorn
John Quincy Adams by Sean Patrick O'Rourke
Andrew Jackson by Thomas M. Lessl
Abraham Lincoln by Lois J. Einhorn
Theodore Roosevelt by Robert V. Friedenberg
Woodrow Wilson by J. Michael Hogan and James R. Andrews
Herbert Clark Hoover by Carl R. Burgchardt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Halford Ryan
Harry S. Truman by Halford Ryan
Dwight D. Eisenhower by Martin J. Medhurst
John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Vito N. Silvestri
Lyndon Baines Johnson by Kenneth S. Zagacki
Richard Milhous Nixon by Hal W. Bochin
Gerald R. Ford by Craig Allen Smith
Jimmy Carter by Dan F. Hahn and Halford Ryan
Ronald Reagan by Kurt Ritter
George Herbert Walker Bush by Craig R. Smith
Bill Clinton by Stephen C. Wood and Jean M. DeWitt
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