Presidential campaign rhetoric in an age of confessional politics / Brian T. Kaylor.

"When a Bible-quoting Sunday School teacher, Jimmy Carter, won the 1976 presidential election, it marked the start of a new era of presidential campaign discourse. The successful candidates since then have followed Carter's lead in publicly testifying about their personal religious beliefs...

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Main Author: Kaylor, Brian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.
Series:Lexington studies in political communication.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Carter and Reagan
  • Bush and Clinton
  • W. Bush and Obama
  • Confessional politics
  • Societal religious-political shifts
  • Implications from the confessional booth.