DEEDS DONE IN WORDS
University of Chicago Press, 1990. HACKNEY, Sheldon. Item #2101
CAMPBELL, Karlyn Kohrs. [With Kathleen Hall Jamieson]. DEEDS DONE IN WORDS. Presidential Rhetoric and the Genres of Governance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1990]. Small quarto, cloth & boards in dust jacket; 275 pages. First Edition, first printing. A thoughtful survey of how a democracy uses language to translate its business. Signed presentation from Jamieson on the front endpaper to historian, prominent U.S. educator, and former president of Tulane University and the University of Pennsylvania Francis Sheldon Hackney. 'For Sheldon Hackney, with thanks for making Penn a place at which an administrator can also be a scholar or a scholar, an administrator, Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Jl 90." Hackney was University of Pennsylvania president during to so-called Water Buffalo Incident dealing with racial harassment and free speech. Jamieson is a professor at U. of Penn. Fine in d/j. $125.00.
Price: $125.00