Download or read book The Anti-Intellectual Presidency written by Elvin T. Lim and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elvin Lim draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents' ability to communicate with the public.