GEORGE W. BUSH, “SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS” (20 JANUARY 2005)

Readings

Abbott, Philip. Strong Presidents: A Theory of Leadership. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.

Boot, Max. The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

Bostdorff, Denise M. “George W. Bush’s Post-September 11 Rhetoric of Covenant Renewal: Upholding the Faith of the Greatest Generation.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 89 (2003): 293-319.

Burkett, Christopher C. “The American Founding and Conservative Foreign Policy Today.” In Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding. Eds., Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West, 241-282. Lanham,MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.

Bush, George W. A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House. New York: Perennial, 1999.

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and the Genres of Governance. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Cronin, Thomas E., and Michael A. Genovese. The Paradoxes of the American Presidency. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Fisher, Louis. Presidential War Power, 2d ed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.

Foyle, Douglas C. “The Convinced, the Skeptical, and the Hostile: American and World Public Opinion on the Bush Doctrine.” In Understanding the Bush Doctrine: Psychology and Strategy in an Age of Terrorism. Eds., Stanley A. Renshon and Peter Suedfeld, 65-104. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Green, Fitzhugh. George Bush: An Intimate Portrait. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1991.

Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Hargrove, Erwin C. The President as Leader: Appealing to the Better Angels of Our Nature. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Hilliard, Bryan, Tom Lansford, and Robert P. Watson, eds. George W. Bush: Evaluating the President at Midterm. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.

Horsman, Reginald. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Levy, Jack S. “Preventive War and the Bush Doctrine: Theoretical Logic and Historical Roots.” In Understanding the Bush Doctrine: Psychology and Strategy in an Age of Terrorism. Eds., Stanley A. Renshon and Peter Suedfeld, 175-200. New York: Routledge, 2007.

McDonald, Forrest. The American Presidency: An Intellectual History. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.

Mead, Walter Russell. Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Murphy, John M. “‘Our Mission and Our Moment’: George W. Bush and September 11th.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 6 (2003): 607-632.

Rabkin, Jeremy. “American Founding Principles and American Foreign Policy.” In Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding. Eds., Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West, 299-330. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.

Rafael, Vincent L. “White Love: Surveillance and Nationalist Resistance in the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines.” In Cultures of United States Imperialism. Eds., Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, 185-218.Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.

Renshon, Stanley A., and Peter Suedfeld, eds. Understanding the Bush Doctrine: Psychology and Strategy in an Age of Terrorism. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Sanford, Charles L. Manifest Destiny and the Imperialism Question. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974.

Stephanson, Anders. Manifest Destiny: American Expansionism and the Empire of Right. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.

Turner, Frederick J. “The Significance of the Frontier in American History.” Annual Report of the American Historical Association. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894.

Weinberg, Albert K. Manifest Destiny: A Study of Nationalist Expansionism in American History. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1958.

Winkler, Carol. “Parallels in Preemptive War Rhetoric: Reagan on Libya; Bush 43 on Iraq.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 10 (2007): 303-333.

Wolfson, Adam. “The Bush Doctrine: New Ways for a New World.” In Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding. Eds., Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West, 283-298. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.

Zarefsky, David. “Making the Case for War: Colin Powell at the United Nations.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 10 (2007): 275-302.

Audio-Visual Materials

Bernstein, Emily M., and Margaret Murphy. The War Against Al Qaeda. New York: A&E Television Networks, 2004. Video Recording.

Docherty, Neil. Al Qaeda’s New Front. Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 2005. Video Recording.

Kirk, Michael. Rumseld’s War. Boston, MA: WGBH Education Foundation/PBS Video, 2003. Video Recording.

Kirk, Michael, and Louis Wiley, Jr. The Long Road to War. Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 2004. Video Recording.

Kunhardt, Philip B. Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt, III, and Peter W. Kunhardt, The American President: The World Stage, Episode Six. Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 2000. Video Recording.

On-Line Resources

Bush, George W. “Executive Orders.” The Federal Register, The National Archives and Records Administration, http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/wbush-subjects.html.

“Chronology: The Evolution of the Bush Doctrine.” Frontline–PBS, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/etc/cron.html.

“55th Inaugural Ceremony: George W. Bush.” Official White House Website—George W. Bush, January 2005, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/inaugural/.

“‘I Do Solemnly Swear . . .’ Presidential Inaugurals.” American Memory. The Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pihome.html.

“The National Security Strategy of the United States of America.” Official White House Website–George W. Bush, September, 2002, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/nsc/nss/2002/.

“President Bush Delivers Graduation Speech at West Point.” Official White House Website–George W. Bush, June 1, 2002, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020601-3.htmlhttp://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020601-3.html.

“Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush. GPO Access, https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=PPP.

“Setting the Record Straight: President Bush’s Foreign Policy is Succeeding.” Official White House Website–George W. Bush, July 21, 2006, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/07/20060721-5.html.

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Papers of George W. Bush, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/bush2001pap.asp.

The Miller Center of Public Affairs. University of Virginia, http://millercenter.virginia.edu/.

Woolley, John, and Gerhard Peters. The American Presidency Project. Document Archives, University of California–Santa Barbara, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php.

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