Voices of Public Leadership in the 20th Century

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Please note that the lecture notes are color coded.  Blue text indicates that notes deal with a "theory" of political leadership.  Brown notes deal with the history of the time.  And green notes deal with the rhetoric we are studying.

  • Introduction to our study of Public Leadership
  • Working with Speeches: Step by Step
  • Political Leadership
  • Confronting Power: The Turn of the Century and the Progressive Movement
  • Marshaling Political Will: Franklin Roosevelt in the Great Depression
  • Countering Political Motives: Ronald Reagan and the Destruction of the New Deal
  • Policy Leadership: Bill Clinton's Health Care Proposal
  • War and Peace: Leadership and Dissent
  • Isolationism and Internationalism
  • Motivating War
  • The Cold War
  • The War on Terrorism
  • Justifying War
  • Leading Social Movements
  • Additional information on the social movements of the 1960s
  • Moral Leadership
  • Leadership Shaping Economic Life

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    This page maintained by James F. Klumpp jklumpp@umd.edu. Last update May 13, 2008