Defining Americans: The Presidency and National Identity. cloth 336 p.
内容
As Mary Stuckey observes, presidents embrace, articulate, andreinvigorate the American sense of national identity. They define whoAmericans are - often by declaring who they aren't. Here, she shows howpresidential speech has served to broaden the American politicalcommunity over the past two centuries while at the same time excludingothers.