Speechwriting (Presidential)

Selected Bibliography

Airoldi, E. M., Fienberg, S. E., & Skinner, K. K. (2007). Whose ideas? Whose words? Authorship of Ronald Reagan's radio addresses. PS: Political Science & Politics, 40, 501-506.

Anderson, P., Baer, D,, & Price, R. (2010). Speechwriters on the Inaugural Address. In M. Nelson, M. and R. L. Riley R. L. (Editors). The President's Words: Speeches and Speechwriting in the Modern White House ((111 – 146) University of Kansas Press.

Anderson, P., Khachigian, K., & Price, R. (2010). Speechwriters on the acceptance address. In M. Nelson, M. and R. L. Riley R. L. (Editors). The President's Words: Speeches and Speechwriting in the Modern White House (51 – 86) University of Kansas Press.

Ball, M. A. (2003). Lyndon B. Johnson: From private deliberations to public declaration—The making of LBJ's renunciation speech. In K. Ritter and M. J. Medhurst (Eds.) Presidential speechwriting: From the new deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond (pp. 108-136). College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Benson, T. W. (1998). "To lend a hand": Gerald R. Ford, Watergate, and the White House speechwriters. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 1, 201-225.

Bormann, E. G. (1960). Ghostwriting and the rhetorical critic. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 41,

Bos, M. (1998) Words as signals: Drafting Cold War rhetoric in the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations. Congress & the Presidency: A Journal of Capital
Studies, 25
23-41.

Bruss, K. (2010). The Art of “Jesse-Talk”: Speechwriting for Governor Jesse Ventura, Communication and Theatre Association of Minnesota Journal, 37, 47-63.

Carlin, D. B. (2003). Harry S. Truman: From whistle-stops to the halls of congress. In K. Ritter and M. J. Medhurst (Eds.) Presidential speechwriting: From the new deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond (pp. 40-67). College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Chapel, G. W. (1978). Him you in the house: an interview with presidential speechwriter Rober Orben. Communication Quarterly, 26, 44 – 49.

Carpenter, R. H. (2005). Rhetorical eloquence: John F. Kennedy's inaugural address. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Carpenter, R. H. (1989). Woodrow Wilson as speechwriter for George Creel: Presidential style in discourse as an index of personality. presidential Studies Quarterly, 19, 117-.

Devlin, L. P. (1974). the influences of ghostwriting on rhetorical criticism. Today's Speech, 32, 7-12.

Edmonds, J.T., Huebner, L, & Judge, C. (2010). The crisis speech and other landmark addresses: Managing speechwriting and decision-making. In M. Nelson, M. and R. L. Riley R. L. (Editors). The President's Words: Speeches and Speechwriting in the Modern White House (167-205) University of Kansas Press.

Einhorn, L. J. (1988). The ghosts talk: Personal interviews with three former speechwriters. Communication Quarterly, 36, 94-108.

Einhorn, L. J. (1981). The ghosts unmasked: A review of literature on speechwriting. Communication Quarterly, 30, 41-47.

Gavin, W. (2011). Speechwright: An Insider's Take on Political Rhetoric. Michigan State University Press.

Gavin, W. F. (2001). Source material: His heart's abundance: Notes of a Nixon speechwriter. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 31, 358-368.

Gelderman, C. (1997). All the presidents' words: The bully pulpit and the creation of the virtual presidency. New York: Walker and Company.

Golden, J. L. (1966). John F. Kennedy and the 'Ghosts'. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 52, 348-357.

Griffin, C. J. G. (2003). Dwight D. Eisenhower: The 1954 State of the Union Address as a case study in presidential speechwriting. In K. Ritter and M. J. Medhurst (Eds.) Presidential speechwriting: From the new deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond (pp. 68-91). College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Houck, D. W. (2002). FDR and fear itself: The first inaugural address. College Station, TX: Texas University A & M Press.

Jardine, M. (1998). Speech and political practice: Recovering the place of human responsibility. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Jones, C. O. (2010). The Inaugural address: Ceremony of transitions. In M. Nelson, M. and R. L. Riley R. L. (Editors). The President's Words: Speeches and Speechwriting in the Modern White House (pp. 87-110) University of Kansas Press.

Khachigian, K., Robinson, P, & Shapiro, W. (2010). In M. Nelson, M. and R. L. Riley R. L. (Editors). The President's Words: Speeches and Speechwriting in the Modern White House (206-275) University of Kansas Press.

Latimer, M. (2009). Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor. New York: Crown Pub.

Lehrman, R. (2010). The political speechwriter's companion. Washington D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press.

Litt, D. (2017). Thanks Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years. Harper Collins.

Max, D. T. (2001). The making of the speech: The 2,988 words that changed a presidency: An etymology. The New York Times Magazine. [W. Bush and 9/11.

Medhurst, M. J. (2010). The acceptance speech: presidential speech writing, 1932 – 2008. In M. Nelson, M. and R. L. Riley R. L. (Editors). The President's Words: Speeches and Speechwriting in the Modern White House (27 – 50) University of Kansas Press.

Medhurst, M. J. (2003). Enduring issues in presidential speechwriting. In K. Ritter and M. J. Medhurst (Eds.) Presidential speechwriting: From the new deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond (pp. 217-220). College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Medhurst, M. J. (2003). Presidential speechwriting: Ten myths that plague modern scholarship. In K. Ritter and M. J. Medhurst (Eds.) Presidential speechwriting: From the new deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond (pp. 3-19). College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press.

Medhurst, M. J. (2001). Text and context in the 1952 presidential campaign: Eisenhower's "I Shall Go to Korea" speech. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 31, 464-484.

Medhurst, M. J. (1998). Writing speeches for Ronald Reagan: An interview with Tony Dolan. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 1, 245-256.

Medhurst, M. J. (1987). Ghostwritten speeches: Ethics isn't the only lesson. Communication Education, 36, .

Medhurst, M. J., & Dreibelbis, G. C. (1986). Building the speechwriter-principal relationship: Minority leader Robert Mitchell confronts his ghost. Central States Speech Journal, 37, 239-247.

Medhurst, M. J., & Dreibelbis, G. C. (1978). The ghost of McGovern. Communication quarterly, 26, 37 – 43.

Mkilkis, S. M. (2010). Crafting the rhetorical presidency. In M. Nelson, M. and R. L. Riley R. L. (Editors). The President's Words: Speeches and Speechwriting in the Modern White House (274 – 294) University of Kansas Press.

Muir, W. J., Jr. (2003). Ronald Reagan's bully pulpit: Creating a rhetoric of values. In K. Ritter and M. J. Medhurst (Eds.) Presidential speechwriting: From the new deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond (pp. 194-216). College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Muir, W. J., Jr. (1992). The bully pulpit: The presidential leadership of Ronald Reagan. San Francisco: ICS Press.

Nelson, M., & Riley R. L. (Editors) (2010). The President's Words: Speeches and Speechwriting in the Modern White House University of Kansas Press.

Noonan, P. (1990). What I saw at the revolution. New York: Random House.

Parker, D. (2018). The Historical Presidency: JFK's Dante. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 48, 357-372.

Parry-Giles, T. (1999). Speechwriting. In D. D. Perlmutter (Ed.), The Manship School guide to political communication (pp. 209-216). Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.

Patton, J. H. (2003). Jimmy Carter: The language of politics and the practice of integrity. In K. Ritter and M. J. Medhurst (Eds.) Presidential speechwriting: From the new deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond (pp. 165-193). College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Ray, R. F. (1956). Ghostwriting in presidential campaign. Today's Speech, 13-15.

Ritter, K. W. (1992). Ronald Reagan: The great communicator. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Ritter. K., & Medhurst, M. J. (2003). Presidential speechwriting: From the new deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond. College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press.

Ryan, H. R (2003). Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Rhetorical Politics and political rhetorics. In K. Ritter and M. J. Medhurst (Eds.) Presidential speechwriting: From the new deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond (pp. 21-39). College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Schlesinger, R. (2008). White House ghosts: Presidents and their speechwriters. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Scully, M. (2007). Present at the Creation. The Atlantic Monthly. [Critique Michael Gerson & Bush]

Smith, C. R. (2014). Confessions of a Presidential Speechwriter Michigan State University Press.

Smith, C. R. (2003). Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford: Lessons on speechwriting. In K. Ritter and M. J. Medhurst (Eds.) Presidential speechwriting: From the new deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond (pp. 137-164). College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Smith, C. R. (1989). Speechwriting: An acquired art. In L. J. Sabato (Ed.), Campaign & elections: A reader in modern American politics (pp. 33-40). Boston: Scott Foresman.

Smith, C. R. (1977). Addendum to "Contemporary Political Speech Writing". Southern Speech Communication Journal, 42, 191-194.

Smith, C. R. (1976). Contemporary political speech writing. Southern Speech Communication Journal, 42, 52-67.

Smith, C. R. (1971). Richard Nixon's 1968 acceptance speech as a model of dual audience adaption. Today's Speech, 29, 15-22.

Stelkovis, W. J. (1954). Ghostwriting: Ancient and honorable. Today's Speech, 2, 17-19.

Steinhorn, L. (2006). Presidential speechwriting: From the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution and beyond. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 36, 332-334.

Swain, B. (2016). The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics. Simon & Schuster.

Tenpas, K. D. (2019). The of the Union Address: Process, politics, and promotion. In M. Nelson, M. and R. L. Riley R. L. (Editors). The President's Words: Speeches and Speechwriting in the Modern White House (147-166) University of Kansas Press.

Vaughn, J. S., & Villalobos, J. D. (2006). Conceptualizing and measuring White House staff influence on presidential rhetoric. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 36, 681-688.

Waldman, M. (2000). POTUS speaks: Finding the words that defined the Clinton administration. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Windes, R., Jr. (1960). Adlai E. Stevenson's speech staff in the 1956 campaign. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 46, 32-43.

Windt, T. O, Jr. (2003). John F. Kennedy: Presidential speechwriting as rhetorical collaboration. In K. Ritter and M. J. Medhurst (Eds.) Presidential speechwriting: From the new deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond (pp. 92-107). College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Witherspoon, P. D. (1987). "Let us continue:" The rhetorical initiation of Lyndon Johnson's presidency. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 17, 531-539.

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