Colleen Elizabeth Kelley is associate professor of speech communication at the Pennsylvania State University.

Everyone seems to believe that 'everything changed' after the events of 9/11/2001, although the meaning of that 'everything' continues to be debated in public discourse both in the U.S. and internationally. Colleen Kelley makes a powerful, careful, and refreshingly non-ideological case, well-grounded in the literatures of history and communication, for the emergence of what she calls 'proto-fascism' in the rhetoric of the Bush Administration. This book should be of wide interest, not only to scholars of the presidency, but to students and general readers interested in making sense of the dangerous new world we have entered since 9/11.

• Chapter 1 History of FascismChapter 2 The Rhetorical Presidency, Power, and Fascist DiscourseChapter 3 Presidential Discourse and FascismChapter 4 The Discourse of the SyndicateChapter 5 The Discourse of the PresidentChapter 6 A Keystone StrategyChapter 7 The Post-9/11 Rhetorical DoctrineChapter 8 Implications of the Post-9/11 American PresidencyChapter 9 Voicing Democracy

Colleen Elizabeth Kelley is associate professor of speech communication at the Pennsylvania State University.

Everyone seems to believe that 'everything changed' after the events of 9/11/2001, although the meaning of that 'everything' continues to be debated in public discourse both in the U.S. and internationally. Colleen Kelley makes a powerful, careful, and refreshingly non-ideological case, well-grounded in the literatures of history and communication, for the emergence of what she calls 'proto-fascism' in the rhetoric of the Bush Administration. This book should be of wide interest, not only to scholars of the presidency, but to students and general readers interested in making sense of the dangerous new world we have entered since 9/11.

• Chapter 1 History of FascismChapter 2 The Rhetorical Presidency, Power, and Fascist DiscourseChapter 3 Presidential Discourse and FascismChapter 4 The Discourse of the SyndicateChapter 5 The Discourse of the PresidentChapter 6 A Keystone StrategyChapter 7 The Post-9/11 Rhetorical DoctrineChapter 8 Implications of the Post-9/11 American PresidencyChapter 9 Voicing Democracy

Colleen Elizabeth Kelley is associate professor of speech communication at the Pennsylvania State University.

Everyone seems to believe that 'everything changed' after the events of 9/11/2001, although the meaning of that 'everything' continues to be debated in public discourse both in the U.S. and internationally. Colleen Kelley makes a powerful, careful, and refreshingly non-ideological case, well-grounded in the literatures of history and communication, for the emergence of what she calls 'proto-fascism' in the rhetoric of the Bush Administration. This book should be of wide interest, not only to scholars of the presidency, but to students and general readers interested in making sense of the dangerous new world we have entered since 9/11.

• Chapter 1 History of FascismChapter 2 The Rhetorical Presidency, Power, and Fascist DiscourseChapter 3 Presidential Discourse and FascismChapter 4 The Discourse of the SyndicateChapter 5 The Discourse of the PresidentChapter 6 A Keystone StrategyChapter 7 The Post-9/11 Rhetorical DoctrineChapter 8 Implications of the Post-9/11 American PresidencyChapter 9 Voicing Democracy