The George W. Bush Presidency

Robert E. Denton, Jr. holds the W. Thomas Rice Chair of Leadership Studies in the Pamplin College of Business and is professor in the Department of Communication at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He is author, co-author or editor of twenty-two books. The most recent titles include Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices, 7th Edition, Studies of Identity in the 2008 Presidential Campaign, and Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House.

Chapter One. The Presidency that Almost Wasn’t: George W. Bush’s First Inaugural
Joseph M. Valenzano, University of Dayton

Chapter Two. George W. Bush at a Global Gettysburg
Ben Voth, Southern Methodist University

Chapter Three. George W. Bush’s First Year of War Time Rhetoric
Robert V. Friedenberg, Miami University of Ohio

Chapter Four. War Stories: The Terror Narrative of George W. Bush’s State of the Union Addresses 2002-2006
Patrick S. Loebs, University of Memphis

Chapter Five. George W. Bush, the American Press, and the Initial Framing of the War on Terror after 9/11
Jim Kuypers, Virginia Tech University, Stephen Cooper, Marshall University and Matthew T. Althouse, The College at Brockport (SUNY)

Chapter Six. George W. Bush’s Conservatism: Compassionate or Compromised?
Terrence L. Warburton, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Chapter Seven. George W. Bush and Bioethics: Framing the Stem Cell Debate
Gwen Brown, Rider University; Matthew J. Franck, The Witherspoon Institute and Sandra L. French, Radford University

Chapter Eight. George W. Bush and Religion: Faith, Policy, and Rhetoric
Robert E. Denton, Jr., Virginia Tech University