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Title Doing rhetorical history : concepts and cases / edited by Kathleen J. Turner.

Imprint Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1998.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.072 D684 1998    ---  Available
Description xi, 310 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in rhetoric and communication
Studies in rhetoric and communication.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-294) and index.
Contents Four senses of rhetorical history / David Zarefsky -- Rhetorical construction of history / E. Culpepper Clark and Raymie E. McKerrow -- Rhetorics of the past : history, argument, and collective memory / Bruce E. Gronbeck -- Theoretical implications of doing rhetorical history : groupthink, foreign policy making, and Vietnam / Moya Ann Ball -- Constitutive framework for rhetorical historiography : toward an understanding of the discursive (re)constitution of constitution in The Federalist papers / James Jasinski -- Oaths registered in heaven : rhetorical and historical legitimacy in the inaugural addresses of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln / James R. Andrews -- Borderland denouement : Missourians and the rhetorical inauguration of the unholy crusade, Spring 1861 / Timothy C. Jenkins -- Civil rights and the Cold War : a rhetorical history of the Truman administration's desegregation of the United States Army / Steven R. Goldzwig -- Deciding factor : the rhetorical construction of Mansfield's credibility and the Eisenhower administration's policy on diem / Gregory Allen Olson -- Declining honors : Dorothy Day's rhetorical resistance to the culture of heroic ascent / Carol J. Jablonski -- History and culture as rhetorical constraints : Cesar Chavez's letter from Delano / John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen.
Subject United States -- Historiography.
United States -- Politics and government -- Case studies.
Communication in politics -- United States -- History -- Case studies.
Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- Case studies.
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- Case studies.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- History and criticism.
English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.
Added Author Turner, Kathleen J., 1952-
ISBN 9780817350482
0817350489
081730925X
9780817309251

 
    
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