Shared Land/Conflicting Identity

Robert C Rowland, David a Frank

• Hardcover | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use argues that rhetoric, ideology, and myth have played key roles in... Lees meer

William James and the Art of Popular Statement

Paul Stob

• Paperback | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• At the turn of the twentieth century, no other public intellectual was as celebrated in America as the influential philosopher and psychologist Willia... Lees meer

Executing Democracy

Stephen J Hartnett

• Hardcover | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs | nr. 2
• This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the first volume of Executing Democracy enters the death-penalty discussion during the debates of 18... Lees meer

Angelina Grimke

Stephen H Browne

• Paperback | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• Abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer, Angelina Grimké (1805-79) was among the first women in American history to seize the publi... Lees meer

Frederick Douglass

Gregory P Lampe

• Paperback | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• 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... Lees meer

Eisenhower's War of Words

• Hardcover | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• This volume paints a revisionist portrait of Dwight Eisenhower as a strategic communicator who was highly involved in the series of crises that charac... Lees meer

Rhetoric & Democracy

• Hardcover | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• From the Declaration of Independence to the Gettysburg Address, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech to John F. Kennedy's inaugural... Lees meer

The Political Style of Conspiracy

Michael William Pfau

• Hardcover | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• The turbulent history of the United States has provided a fertile ground for conspiracies, both real and imagined. From the American Revolution to the... Lees meer

Intertextuality and the 24-Hour News Cycle

John Oddo

• Paperback | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• On a cold Wednesday morning in February 2003 Colin Powell argued before the United Nations Security Council that Iraq harbored weapons of mass destruc... Lees meer

Metaphorical World Politics

• Paperback | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• Metaphorical World Politics argues that language and metaphor are important parts of international political reality. Metaphors and world politics hav... Lees meer

Mansfield and Vietnam

Gregory A Olson

• Hardcover | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• Mansfield and Vietnam: A Study in Rhetorical Adaptation is the first major work to examine the role played by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, D... Lees meer

The Good Neighbor

Mary E Stuckey

• Hardcover | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• No modern president has had as much influence on American national politics as Franklin D. Roosevelt. During FDR's administration, power shifted from ... Lees meer

On the Frontier of Science

Leah Ceccarelli

• Paperback | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• "The frontier of science" is a metaphor that has become ubiquitous in American rhetoric, from its first appearance in the public address of early twen... Lees meer

Angelina Grimke

Stephen H Browne

• Hardcover | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• Abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer, Angelina Grimké (1805-79) was among the first women in American history to seize the publi... Lees meer

Strategic Deception

Gordon R Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• The Cold War's legacy has been characterized by a systematic pattern of threat inflation, a relentless stream of surplus weapons development, and a pr... Lees meer

Malcolm X

Robert E Terrill

• Paperback | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• Few figures haunt the collective American psyche like Malcolm X. Hoodlum, convict, convert, prophet, nationalist, and martyr, Malcolm's life spans the... Lees meer

With Faith in the Works of Words

Erik Doxtader

• Paperback | Engels | Rhetoric & Public Affairs
• With Faith in the Works of Words is the first book to look behind the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and examine reconciliation's larger an... Lees meer