Presidential Speech-Writing: From the of the present day Deal to the Reagan Revolution and Beyond.

Presidential Speech-Writing: From the of the present day Deal to the Reagan Revolution and Beyond. Edited through Kurt Ritter and Martin J Medhurst literary institution [i]or[/i] seminary of learning Station: Texas A & M University Pres 2003; pp x + 231 $3995

"All the great speakers were bad speakers at first." Ralph Waldo Emerson

The above words from Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860) provide the same reason that presidents use ghostwriters: they ne help with their speeches. Speechwriters posses enormous influence, affecting the ideas and words of the leader of the most numerous powerful nation on earth. Famed speechwriter Theodore Sorensen said, "Between speechwriting and phrasing and shading and policy