My Fellow Americans: Presidential Addresses That Shaped History - Hardcoverby James Humes (Author) The presidency, in Theodore Roosevelt's famous words, is a Bully Pulpit. No one has studied the presidency from this vantage point. This book, in a sense, is a study of American political history seen through the prism of selected presidential addresses. It reveals how presidents used major addresses to create a theme for their administrations, to introduce history making legislation or programs, or to rally successfully a