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Cold War Rhetoric
Strategy, Metaphor, and Ideology
Av Martin J. Medhurst, Robert L. Ivie m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
415 kr
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Cold War Rhetoric is the first book in over twenty years to bring a sustained rhetorical critique to bear on central texts of the Cold War. The rhetorical texts that are the subject of this book include speeches by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, the Murrow- McCarthy confrontation on CBS, the …
Post-Realism
The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations
Av Robert Hariman, Francis A. Beer
Häftad, 1996
719 kr
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The end of the Cold War encourages new perspectives on international relations. Beer and Hariman provide a comprehensive set of essays that challenge and reinterpret the tradition of realism which has dominated the thinking of academics and foreign policy makers. Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn …
Religious Expression and the American Constitution
Häftad, 2003
284 kr
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First Amendment rights have been among the most fiercely debated topics in the aftermath of 9/11. In the current environment and fervor for “homeland security,” personal freedoms in exchange for security are coming under more scrutiny. Among these guaranteed freedoms are the protection of religious …
Bending Spines
The Propagandas of Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic
Häftad, 2004
460 kr
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Why do totalitarian propaganda such as those created in Nazi Germany and the former German Democratic Republic initially succeed, and why do they ultimately fail? Outside observers often make two serious mistakes when they interpret the propaganda of this time. First, they assume the propaganda …
Christianity and the Mass Media in America
Toward a Democratic Accommodation
Häftad, 2005
507 kr
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The mass media and religious groups in America regularly argue about news bias, sex and violence on television, movie censorship, advertiser boycotts, broadcast and film content rating systems, government regulation of the media, the role of mass evangelism in a democracy, and many other issues. In …
Malcolm X
Inventing Radical Judgment
Häftad, 2007
538 kr
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Few figures haunt the collective American psyche like Malcolm X. Hoodlum, convict, convert, prophet, nationalist, and martyr, Malcolm’s life spans the Civil Rights era like an index of America’s racial anxiety. Dozens of books and hundreds of articles have analyzed his life, his work, and the …
William James and the Art of Popular Statement
Av Paul Stob
Häftad, 2013
1073 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, no other public intellectual was as celebrated in America as the influential philosopher and psychologist William James. Sought after around the country, James developed his ideas in lecture halls and via essays and books intended for general audiences. …
Good Neighbor
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of American Power
Inbunden, 2013
1705 kr
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No modern president has had as much influence on American national politics as Franklin D. Roosevelt. During FDR’s administration, power shifted from states and localities to the federal government; within the federal government it shifted from Congress to the president; and internationally, it …
On the Frontier of Science
An American Rhetoric of Exploration and Exploitation
Häftad, 2013
1166 kr
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“The frontier of science” is a metaphor that has become ubiquitous in American rhetoric, from its first appearance in the public address of early twentieth-century American intellectuals and politicians who aligned a mythic national identity with scientific research, to its more recent use in …
Creating Conservatism
Postwar Words that Made an American Movement
Häftad, 2014
893 kr
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Creating Conservatism charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States. Dedicated conservatives have argued for decades that the conservative movement was a product of print, rather …
Superchurch
The Rhetoric and Politics of American Fundamentalism
Häftad, 2015
1133 kr
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Christian Fundamentalism is a doctrine and a discourse in tension. Fundamentalists describe themselves as both marginal and a majority. They announce the imminent end of the world while building massive megachurches and political lobbying organizations. They speak of the need for purity and …
Rethinking Rhetorical Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy
The Living Art of Michael C. Leff
Av Antonio de Velasco, John Angus Campbell m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
712 kr
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What distinguishes the study of rhetoric from other pursuits in the liberal arts? From what realms of human existence and expression, of human history, does such study draw its defining character? What, in the end, should be the purposes of rhetorical inquiry? And amid so many competing accounts of …
To Become an American
Immigrants and Americanization Campaigns of the Early Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2017
712 kr
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Pledging allegiance, singing the “Star-Spangled Banner,” wearing a flag pin—these are all markers of modern patriotism, emblems that announce the devotion of American citizens. Most of these nationalistic performances were formulized during the early twentieth century and driven to new heights by …
Imagining China
Rhetorics of Nationalism in an Age of Globalization
Av Stephen J. Hartnett, Lisa B. Keränen m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
998 kr
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Standing as the world’s two largest economies, marshaling the most imposing armies on earth, holding enormous stockpiles of nuclear weapons, consuming a majority share of the planet’s natural resources, and serving as the media generators and health care providers for billions of consumers around …
Political Vocabularies
FDR, the Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument
Häftad, 2018
838 kr
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Political Vocabularies: FDR, the Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument uses a set of letters sent to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 by American clergymen to make a larger argument about the rhetorical processes of our national politics. At any given moment, national politics are …
Rhetorical Invention of Diversity
Supreme Court Opinions, Public Arguments, and Affirmative Action
Häftad, 2018
801 kr
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Despite the tepid reception of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke in 1978, the Supreme Court has thrice affirmed its holding: universities can use race as an admissions factor to achieve the goal of a diverse student body. This book examines the process of rhetorical invention …
Michael Osborn on Metaphor and Style
Häftad, 2018
1065 kr
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This volume features two dimensions of Michael Osborn’s work with rhetorical metaphor. The first focuses on his early efforts to develop a conception of metaphor to advance the understanding of rhetoric, while the second concerns more recent efforts to apply this enriched conception in the analysis …
Debating Women
Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945
Häftad, 2018
897 kr
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Spanning a historical period that begins with women’s exclusion from university debates and continues through their participation in coeducational intercollegiate competitions, Debating Women highlights the crucial role that debating organizations played as women sought to access the fruits of …
John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion
Häftad, 2019
1059 kr
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The first serious study of his discourse in nearly a quarter century, John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion examines the major speeches of Kennedy’s presidency, from his famed but controversial inaugural address to his belated but powerful demand for civil rights. It argues that his eloquence …
Strains of Dissent
Popular Music and Everyday Resistance in WWII France, 1940 - 1945
Av Kelly Jakes
Häftad, 2019
712 kr
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During the German Occupation from 1940 to 1944, Resistance fighters, Parisian youth, and French prisoners of war mined a vast repertoire from a long national musical tradition and a burgeoning international entertainment industry, embracing music as a rhetorical resource with which to destabilize …
National Rhetorics in the Syrian Immigration Crisis
Victims, Frauds, and Floods
Av Clarke Rountree, Jouni Tilli
Häftad, 2019
897 kr
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The Syrian refugee crisis seriously challenged countries in the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere in the world. It provoked reactions from humanitarian generosity to anti-immigrant warnings of the destruction of the West. It contributed to the United Kingdom’s “Brexit” from the …
Origins of Bioethics
Remembering When Medicine Went Wrong
Häftad, 2019
517 kr
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The Origins of Bioethics argues that what we remember from the history of medicine and how we remember it are consequential for the identities of doctors, researchers, and patients in the present day. Remembering when medicine went wrong calls people to account for the injustices inflicted on …
Manufacture of Consent
J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI
Häftad, 2020
1042 kr
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The second Red Scare was a charade orchestrated by a tyrant with the express goal of undermining the New Deal—so argues Stephen M. Underhill in this hard-hitting analysis of J. Edgar Hoover’s rhetorical agency. Drawing on Classification 94, a vast trove of recently declassified records that …
Intellectual Populism
Democracy, Inquiry, and the People
Av Paul Stob
Häftad, 2020
919 kr
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In response to denunciations of populism as undemocratic and anti-intellectual, Intellectual Populism argues that populism has contributed to a distinct and democratic intellectual tradition in which ordinary people assume leading roles in the pursuit of knowledge. Focusing on the Gilded Age and …
Uprising
How Women Used the US West to Win the Right to Vote
Häftad, 2021
1166 kr
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Decades before white women won the right to vote throughout the United States, they first secured that right in its Western region—beginning in Wyoming in 1869. Many scholars have studied why and how the Western states enfranchised women before the Eastern ones; this book instead examines the …
Resowing the Seeds of War
Presidential Peace Rhetoric since 1945
Häftad, 2021
1429 kr
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Ending a war, as Fred Charles Iklé wrote, poses a much greater challenge than beginning one. In addition to issues related to battle tactics, prisoners of war, diplomatic relations, and cease-fire negotiations, ending war involves domestic political calculations. Balancing the tides of public …
Reconstruction Desegregation Debate
The Policies of Equality and the Rhetoric of Place, 1870-1875
Häftad, 2002
813 kr
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In the decade that followed the Civil War, two questions dominated political debate: To what degree were African Americans now “equal” to white Americans, and how should this equality be implemented in law? Although Republicans entertained multiple, even contradictory, answers to these questions, …
Executing Democracy
Volume One: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807
Häftad, 2024
757 kr
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Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807 is the first volume of a rhetorical history of public debates about crime, violence, and capital punishment in America. This examination begins in 1683, when William Penn first struggled to govern the rowdy indentured …
Executing Democracy
Volume Two: Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1835-1843
Häftad, 2024
757 kr
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This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the first volume of Executing Democracy enters the death-penalty discussion during the debates of 1835 and 1843, when pro-death penalty Calvinist minister George Barrell Cheever faced off against abolitionist magazine editor John O’Sullivan. In …
Eisenhower's War of Words
Rhetoric and Leadership
Inbunden, 1994
863 kr
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This volume paints a revisionist portrait of Dwight Eisenhower as a strategic communicator who was highly involved in the series of crises that characterized his administrations. As a consummate cold warrior, Eisenhower understood that words, images, perceptions, and the shaping of attitudes were …
