id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
expositions-1841	none	Presidential Statesmanship as Civic Education	2015	23	.pdf	application/pdf	9670	533	57	One would be hard pressed to deny FDR’s lasting influence on our expectations of presidential speechmaking, and on our expectations about the kind of civic education presidents should offer to the American people. In the remaining sections, relying particularly on their public rhetoric, I explain and compare civic “lessons” provided by Presidents Lincoln, Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt.1 By comparing the fundamental ideas presented in their respective writings and speeches, we can discern an important development in the character and content of presidential civic education.	cache/expositions-1841.pdf	txt/expositions-1841.txt