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Shining City on a Hill
Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989
Inbunden, 1991
1072 kr
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This rhetorical criticism of spoken discourse examines Ronald Reagan's polished attempts to persuade the public on economic matters. Amos Kiewe and Davis Houck examine the substance, style, and developmental pattern of Reagan's rhetoric on economic matters and discuss how that rhetoric informed the …
Actor, Ideologue, Politician
The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan
Av Davis W. Houck, Amos Kiewe m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1070 kr
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This new anthology rounds out Ronald Reagan's rhetorical persona and fills a major gap in the literature about the man by offering an unbiased and a multi-dimensional picture of his public speeches during all phases of his political life. The 52 speech texts are arranged, with short introductions, …
Black Bodies in the River
Searching for Freedom Summer
Häftad, 2022
344 kr
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Nearly sixty years after Freedom Summer, its events—especially the lynching of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner—stand out as a critical episode of the civil rights movement. The infamous deaths of these activists dominate not just the history but also the public memory of the …
Black Bodies in the River
Searching for Freedom Summer
Inbunden, 2022
1294 kr
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Nearly sixty years after Freedom Summer, its events—especially the lynching of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner—stand out as a critical episode of the civil rights movement. The infamous deaths of these activists dominate not just the history but also the public memory of the …
FDR and Fear Itself
The First Inaugural Address
Häftad, 2002
253 kr
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. These are some of the most famous, most quoted, and best remembered words in American political history. They seem to be a natural idiomatic expression of American democratic will, yet these words from Franklin Roosevelt's first inaugural address had …
FDR's Body Politics
The Rhetoric of Disability
Inbunden, 2003
381 kr
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Franklin Roosevelt instinctively understood that a politician of his era who was unable to control his own body would be perceived as unable to control the body politic. He therefore took great care to hide his polio-induced lameness both visually and verbally. In FDR's Body Politics. Davis W. …
Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965, Volume 2
Av Davis W. Houck, David E. Dixon
Häftad, 2014
923 kr
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Building upon their critically acclaimed first volume, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon's new Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 is a recovery project of enormous proportions. Houck and Dixon have again combed church archives, government documents, university libraries, …
FDR's Body Politics
The Rhetoric of Disability
E-bok, 2003
303 kr
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Franklin Roosevelt instinctively understood that a politician unable to control his own body would be perceived as unable to control the body politic. He took care to hide his polio-induced lameness both visually and verbally. Through his speeches—and his physical bearing when delivering them—he …
Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press
Av Davis W. Houck, Matthew A. Grindy
Häftad, 2010
414 kr
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Employing never-before-used historical materials, the authors of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press reveal how Mississippi journalists both expressed and shaped public opinion in the aftermath of the 1955 Emmett Till murder. Combing small-circulation weeklies as well as large-circulation …
Effects of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Effects
Past, Present, Future
Inbunden, 2015
791 kr
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The Effects of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Effects tackles one of the thorniest and longest-standing issues in the discipline of rhetoric - the issue of effects. While the field’s founders valued the assessment of a speech’s effects, later scholars moved away from it, privileging textual analysis, …
Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
Av Davis W. Houck, David E. Dixon
Häftad, 2011
401 kr
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Historians have long agreed that women--black and white--were instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently, though, such claims have not been supported by easily accessed texts of speeches and addresses. With this first-of-its-kind anthology, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon …
Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer
To Tell It Like It Is
Av Maegan Parker Brooks, Davis W. Houck
Häftad, 2013
448 kr
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Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972 …
Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965, Volume 1
Av Davis W. Houck, David E. Dixon
Häftad, 2006
849 kr
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The Civil Rights Movement succeeded in large measure because of rhetorical appeals grounded in the Judeo-Christian religion. While movement leaders often used America's founding documents and ideals to depict Jim Crow's contradictory ways, the language and lessons of both the Old and New Testaments …
Rhetoric As Currency
Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression
Inbunden, 2001
471 kr
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In this text, Davis W. Houck uses the historical context of the Great Depression in America to explore the relationship of rhetoric to the economy and economic recovery. This study allows him to understand rhetoric as a process rather than as a series of isolated, discrete products.
Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
Av Davis W. Houck, David E. Dixon
Inbunden, 2009
759 kr
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Historians have long agreed that women--black and white--were instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently, though, such claims have not been supported by easily accessed texts of speeches and addresses. With this first-of-its-kind anthology, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon …
Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press
Av Davis W. Houck, Matthew A. Grindy
Inbunden, 2008
485 kr
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Employing never-before-used historical materials, the au-thors of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press reveal how Mississippi journalists both expressed and shaped public opinion in the aftermath of the 1955 Emmett Till murder. Combing small-circulation weeklies as well as large-circulation …
