The Anti-Intellectual Presidency —— The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush

----- 反对知识分子期：从乔治·华盛顿到乔治·沃克下降的总统语言

ISBN: 9780195342642 出版年：2011 页码：197 Lim, Elvin T Oxford University Press

Lim argues that the ever-increasing tendency for presidents to crowd out argument in presidential rhetoric with applause-rendering platitudes and partisan punch-lines was concertedly implemented by the modern White House. Through a series of interviews with former presidential speechwriters, he shows that the anti-intellectual stance was a deliberate choice rather than a reflection of presidents' intellectual limitations. Only the smart, he suggests, know how to "dumb down."