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Product Description: Details how presidents utilize mass media to justify foreign policy objectives in the aftermath of 9/11.Modern presidents have considerable power in selling U.S. foreign policy objectives to the public. In Selling War, Selling Hope, Anthony R...read more

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9781438457956, titled "Selling War, Selling Hope: Presidential Rhetoric, the News Media, and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 9/11" | State Univ of New York Pr, October 1, 2015, cover price $100.00

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9781438457963, titled "Selling War, Selling Hope: Presidential Rhetoric, the News Media, and U.s. Foreign Policy Since 9/11" | Reprint edition (State Univ of New York Pr, July 2, 2016), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Details how presidents utilize mass media to justify foreign policy objectives in the aftermath of 9/11.

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Product Description: Rather than considering political discussions and rhetoric as symbolic, inconsequential forms of politics, Governing with Words conceptualizes them as forms of government action that can shape institutions and societal norms. Daniel Q...read more

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9781107127548 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 2, 2016, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: Rather than considering political discussions and rhetoric as symbolic, inconsequential forms of politics, Governing with Words conceptualizes them as forms of government action that can shape institutions and societal norms.

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9781107566613 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2016, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Rather than considering political discussions and rhetoric as symbolic, inconsequential forms of politics, Governing with Words conceptualizes them as forms of government action that can shape institutions and societal norms.

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Product Description: With growing anxiety about American identity fueling debates about the nation’s borders, ethnicities, and languages, Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries provides a timely and important rhetorical exploration of divisionary bounds that divide an Us from a Them...read more
By Patti Wojahn (editor)

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9781607324027 | Utah State Univ Pr, March 1, 2016, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: With growing anxiety about American identity fueling debates about the nation’s borders, ethnicities, and languages, Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries provides a timely and important rhetorical exploration of divisionary bounds that divide an Us from a Them.

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Product Description: Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations. Danisch argues that the major entailment of the invention of American pragmatism at the beginning of the twentieth century is that rhetorical practices are the rightful object of study and means of improving democratic life...read more

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9781498517775 | Lexington Books, November 6, 2015, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations.

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Product Description: A truly unique introductory textbook, Public Speaking and Democratic Participation: Speech, Deliberation, and Analysis in the Civic Realm provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic skills involved in public speaking--including reasoning, organization, outlining, anxiety management, style, delivery, and more--through the lens of democratic participation...read more

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9780199338597 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 2, 2015, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: A truly unique introductory textbook, Public Speaking and Democratic Participation: Speech, Deliberation, and Analysis in the Civic Realm provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic skills involved in public speaking--including reasoning, organization, outlining, anxiety management, style, delivery, and more--through the lens of democratic participation.

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Product Description: TOWARD A CRITICAL RHETORIC ON THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT draws on critical conceptions of rhetoric to explore the ways that affective and transferential forces affect discussion of the Israel-Palestine conflict and to create openings for broader understanding...read more
By Matthew Abraham (editor)

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9781602356948 | Parlor Pr, July 5, 2015, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: TOWARD A CRITICAL RHETORIC ON THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT draws on critical conceptions of rhetoric to explore the ways that affective and transferential forces affect discussion of the Israel-Palestine conflict and to create openings for broader understanding.

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9781602356931 | Parlor Pr, June 8, 2015, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: TOWARD A CRITICAL RHETORIC ON THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT draws on critical conceptions of rhetoric to explore the ways that affective and transferential forces affect discussion of the Israel-Palestine conflict and to create openings for broader understanding.

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9781412856812 | Transaction Pub, September 1, 2015, cover price $49.95

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9781412856133 | Transaction Pub, September 1, 2015, cover price $19.95

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9780415050449, titled "On Operational Art: Origins and Evolution" | Routledge, December 1, 1993, cover price $25.01 | also contains On Operational Art: Origins and Evolution

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9780199858798 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2015, cover price $35.00

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9789027211248 | John Benjamins Pub Co, September 24, 2014, cover price $149.00

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9780345295507, titled "Beard on Bread" | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, June 1, 1994), cover price $5.99 | also contains Beard on Bread

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Product Description: Campaign rhetoric helps candidates to get elected, but its effects last well beyond the counting of the ballots; this was perhaps never truer than in Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Did Obama create such high expectations that they actually hindered his ability to enact his agenda? Should we judge his performance by the scale of the expectations his rhetoric generated, or against some other standard? The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency grapples with these and other important questions...read more

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9781623490423 | Texas A & M Univ Pr, January 30, 2014, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Campaign rhetoric helps candidates to get elected, but its effects last well beyond the counting of the ballots; this was perhaps never truer than in Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.

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9781623490430 | Texas A & M Univ Pr, January 29, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Campaign rhetoric helps candidates to get elected, but its effects last well beyond the counting of the ballots; this was perhaps never truer than in Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.

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Product Description: Barack Obama's campaign rhetoric draws upon the idealistic traditions of the Western world. The "rhetoric of hope" is a form of political discourse characterized by a forward-looking vision of social progress brought about by collective effort and adherence to shared values (including discipline, temperance, self-reliance, a strong work ethic, and service to the community)...read more

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9780786467938 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 15, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Barack Obama's campaign rhetoric draws upon the idealistic traditions of the Western world.

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Product Description: It’s a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate’s every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This book explores political communication in American presidential politics, focusing on what political insiders call "message...read more

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9780253007452 | Indiana Univ Pr, September 12, 2012, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: It’s a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate’s every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo.

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9780253007520 | Indiana Univ Pr, September 12, 2012, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: The Morality of Spin explores the ethics of political rhetoric crafted to persuade and possibly manipulate potential voters. Based on extensive insider interviews with leaders of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful Christian right organizations in America, Nathaniel Klemp asks whether the tactic of tailoring a message to a particular audience is politically legitimate or amounts to democratic malpractice...read more

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9781442210523 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, March 1, 2012, cover price $77.00 | About this edition: The Morality of Spin explores the ethics of political rhetoric crafted to persuade and possibly manipulate potential voters.

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Product Description: The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama, by Richard Leeman, provides an in-depth analysis of President Barack Obama’s speeches and writings to explain the power of the 44th president's speaking. This book argues that, from his earliest writings through his latest presidential speeches, Obama has described the world through a teleological lens...read more

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9780739174081 | 1 edition (Lexington Books, May 11, 2012), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama, by Richard Leeman, provides an in-depth analysis of President Barack Obama’s speeches and writings to explain the power of the 44th president's speaking.

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Product Description: Revealing what lies behind much contemporary political rhetoric, Morgan Marietta shows that the language of America's most prominent leaders often relies on deep, even sacred, ideals. Comprehensively and in great detail surveying the rhetorical inventions employed in influential social movements and into the highest levels of government, The Politics of Sacred Rhetoric systematically analyzes the use of absolutist claims―and appeals to what a speaker deems to be universal truths―as essential elements of persuasion in the American political landscape...read more

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9781602583863 | Baylor Univ Pr, March 1, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Revealing what lies behind much contemporary political rhetoric, Morgan Marietta shows that the language of America's most prominent leaders often relies on deep, even sacred, ideals.

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9781433113291 | 2 edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 10, 2012), cover price $36.95

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