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Post-Realism
The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations
Av Robert Hariman, Francis A. Beer
Häftad, 1996
713 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 …
Christianity and the Mass Media in America
Toward a Democratic Accommodation
Häftad, 2005
503 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
534 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
1074 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
1707 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
1168 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
1134 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 …
Imagining China
Rhetorics of Nationalism in an Age of Globalization
Av Stephen J. Hartnett, Lisa B. Keränen m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
999 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 …
John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion
Häftad, 2019
1060 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 …
Origins of Bioethics
Remembering When Medicine Went Wrong
Häftad, 2019
518 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
1043 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
920 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
1168 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
1431 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 …
Executing Democracy
Volume One: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807
Häftad, 2024
758 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
758 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
856 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 …
Mansfield and Vietnam
A Study in Rhetorical Adaptation
Inbunden, 1995
1333 kr
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Mansfield and Vietnam: A Study in Rhetorical Adaptation is the first major work to examine the role played by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Democrat from Montana, in the formulation and execution of U.S. Vietnam policy. Drawing upon material from the Mansfield Papers, personal interviews, …
Truman and the Hiroshima Cult
Inbunden, 1995
1157 kr
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The United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 to end World War II as quickly and with as few casualties as possible. That is the compelling and elegantly simple argument Newman puts forward in his new study of World War II's end, Truman and the Hiroshima Cult. According to Newman: (1) The …
Cold War Rhetoric
Strategy, Metaphor, and Ideology
Av Martin J. Medhurst, Robert L. Ivie m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
593 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 …
Frederick Douglass
Freedom's Voice, 1818-1845
Häftad, 1998
757 kr
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This work in the MSU Press Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series chronicles Frederick Douglass's preparation for a career in oratory, his emergence as an abolitionist lecturer in 1841, and his development and activities as a public speaker and reformer from 1841 to 1845. Lampe's meticulous scholarship …
Angelina Grimke
Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical Imagination
Häftad, 1999
757 kr
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Abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer, Angelina Grimké (1805-79) was among the first women in American history to seize the public stage in pursuit of radical social reform. "I will lift up my voice like a trumpet," she proclaimed, "and show this people their transgressions." …
Strategic Deception
Rhetoric, Science, and Politics in Missile Defense Advocacy
Häftad, 2000
413 kr
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The Cold War's legacy has been characterized by a systematic pattern of threat inflation, a relentless stream of surplus weapons development, and a predilection for a brand of secret science that lines the pockets of defense contractors and swells the war chests of hawkish politicians-things that …
Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid
Inbunden, 2001
679 kr
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Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid is the first comprehensive, critical analysis of the influence of economic historian Walt Whitman Rostow's theory of the "stages of economic growth" on U.S. foreign aid policy during the 1950s and 1960s. Kimber Charles Pearce analyzes Rostow's …
Visions of Poverty
Welfare Policy and Political Imagination
Av Robert Asen
Häftad, 2001
638 kr
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Images of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation repealing the principal federal program providing monetary assistance to poor families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). With the president's signature this …
General Eisenhower
Ideology and Discourse
Av Ira Chernus
Inbunden, 2002
773 kr
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During the Second World War, Dwight D. Eisenhower formulated an ideology that encompassed deeply held ideas about human nature, society, and political life. From the day the war ended, Eisenhower promoted this ideology; he considered the production of words as an end in itself,essential to the real …
Reconstruction Desegregation Debate
The Policies of Equality and the Rhetoric of Place, 1870-1875
Inbunden, 2002
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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, …
Shared Land/Conflicting Identity
Trajectories of Israeli & Palestinian Symbol Use
Av Robert C. Rowland, David A. Frank
Inbunden, 2002
2182 kr
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Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use argues that rhetoric, ideology, and myth have played key roles in influencing the development of the 100-year conflict between first the Zionist settlers and the current Israeli people and the Palestinian residents …
Religious Expression and the American Constitution
Häftad, 2003
413 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 …
