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Building the Myth: Selected Speeches Memorializing Abraham Lincoln

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In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Politics, Rhetoric, and Self-Defense

Rachel L. Holloway

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In June 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission determined that J. Robert Oppenheimer, wartime director of the Manhattan Project and "Father of the Atomic Bomb," was a security risk. Consequently, America's most prominent scientist was removed from government service. In contrast to historical and political explanations of the Oppenheimer case, Holloway explores the role that rhetoric played in Oppenheimer's demise. In doing so, the author draws attention to the symbolic nature of politics and character and highlights the significant interaction of political and scientific terminologies in American discourse. Holloway's analysis and evaluation suggest that the accusations against Oppenheimer used the most powerful terms of the mid-1950s--"communism," "progress," and "science"--to legitimize the government's questionable action. Oppenheimer, for his part, failed to use his most strategic rhetorical resources in his defense, and therefore participated in his own ruin. Holloway highlights the rhetorical interaction among accusation, self-defense, and decision statements through a microscopic rhetorical analysis of the case's five central documents. An original extension and refinement of Kenneth Burke's cluster-agon method, which Holloway calls "terminological algebra," is proposed as a systematic analytical tool consistent with Burke's theories. Recommended for critics of rhetoric and political communication.

Political Myth (Theorists of Myth)

Christoph Flood

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Myth theorists characterize myths as stories that possess the status of sacred truth within one or more social groups. Flood discusses how political myth is an ideologically marked narrative that purports to give a true account of a set of past, present, or predicted political events, widely accepted as valid in its essentials. Among the topics explored are: the historical line of political myth in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western political discourse; the characteristics of political myths and the forms they take in political life and the ends they serve; and the features of political ideologies that are most useful for understanding the nature of political myth.

The Art of Persuasion: Political Communication in Italy from 1945 to the 1990s

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This book explores the variety of means by which political information has been conveyed in Italy from the early post-war period to the current era when political discourse takes second place to style, image, and soundbite. Examined are both official forms of communication (cinema, government newsreel, the press, election broadcasts) and more informal, clandestine forms of communication mostly originating from social movements, pressure groups and other organizations outside the party system (satire, political songs, terrorism).

Artillery of Words: The Writings of Sir Winston Churchill

Frederick Woods

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Caruso Speaks: A Collection of Outstanding Political Speeches

Sam Caruso

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Crime and the Politics of Hysteria:: How the Willie Horton Story Changed American Justice

David C. Anderson

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Hysteria's On the Other Foot 1 out of 5 stars.
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This book is a chilling reminder that many journalists sincerely believe that nobody should ever be imprisoned for any crime. Anderson sees no irony in reporting that Horton was but one of many furloughed prisoners who committed horrible crimes, while simultaneously arguing that any limits placed on the "rights" of prisoners to furlough is roughly equivalent to organizing a lynch mob. Any and all efforts to respond to violent crime by imposing even rudimentary truth in sentencing is dismissed by the author as "hysteria," "vengefulness," and no less than the undermining of our entire justice system. Who's the hysterical one? His description of Horton's torture of a Maryland couple would make anyone (apparently, except the author) recoil -- but following it, he tries repeatedly to minimize the 12-hour torture of Cliff Barnes, stressing the shallowness of the knife wounds left behind. This book entirely undermines any argument the New York Times may make regarding the objectivity of their crime reporting.

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The author of Crimes of Justice provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Willie Horton Case and its political, penal, and judicial implications for the American criminal justice system. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Strategic Communicator (Great American Orators)

Martin Medhurst

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This first book-length assessment of Ike's consummate skills as a communicator shows how, contrary to popular belief, he used language effectively as a weapon to achieve well-conceived strategic ends during the Cold War. Medhurst demonstrates how Eisenhower chose his audiences and times deliberately. This reference is an invaluable text and resource for students, scholars, and professionals in rhetorical studies, mass communications, public opinion, presidential studies, and Cold War history. The critical analysis shows that, despite caricatures of Eisenhower as fuzzy, muddle-headed, and obscure in his public speeches, he pondered over just the right words and employed half-truths, was ambiguous and indirect in a tactical manner. He knew exactly what he was doing and why. Texts of speeches exemplify how he served as a strategic communicator. A selected chronology points to his most important speeches. The bibliography is the most comprehensive to date on Eisenhower as a public speaker. The study is based on extensive use of primary research materials from the Eisenhower Library.

Edward Everett: Unionist Orator (Great American Orators)

Ronald F. Reid

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Reid reconstitutes the role of epideictic rhetoric in the United States from the end of the Revolutionary War to the eve of the Civil War and reinstates Everett in the pantheon of great American orators. In the process, he treats the reader to a penetrating analysis of the role of public persuasion in the United States during a critical period in its history.

Eisenhower's War of Words: Rhetoric and Leadership (Rhetoric and Public Affairs)

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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 central to the ongoing battle with the Soviet Union. He used rhetoric - actions and messages intentionally designed to persuade - to achieve many of his goals. To Ike, rhetoric was the central weapon for waging - and winning - the cold war. Understood as a strategic art of selection, arrangement, nuance, timing, and audience adaptation, rhetoric became, for Eisenhower, the preferred means for conflict resolution.

Examining both foreign and domestic crises, Eisenhower's War of Words reveals a chief executive who was always thinking, planning, and looking for the opportune moment to strike. Individual chapters are devoted to the crises concerning Vietnam, McCarthyism, the H-bomb, massive retaliation, Open Skies, the Suez, Sputnik, Little Rock, the U-2 Affair, and the military- industrial complex. Eisenhower's rhetorical leadership saw America through a decade that was anything but tranquil. This book examines one of the primary means by which he accomplished that goal.

Notes, photographs, index.

Winner of the National Communication Association, Public Address Division, 1995 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Book