Making the case
Subtitle: advocacy and judgment in public argument
By: edited by Kathryn M. Olson ... [et al.].
Series: Rhetoric and public affairs series
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781611860528
Subjects: Rhetorical criticism; Rhetoric; Case studies; Political oratory; Persuasion (Rhetoric); Communication in politics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The beginnings of oratorical consciousness: restarting time in Homer's Odyssey, the telemachy / G. Thomas Goodnight; title: Lysander Spooner's the unconstitutionality of slavery: a case study in constitutional hermeneutics, ethical argument, and practical reason / James Jasinski; title: Kind persuasion: Lincoln's temperance address and the ethos of civic friendship / Michael Leff; title: Andrew Johnson's fight for states' rights on the battlements of the constitution / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell; title: No end save victory: FDR and the end of isolationism, 1936-1941 / John M. Murphy; title: Iraq as a representative anecdote for leadership: Barack Obama's address on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War / Denise M. Bostdorff; title: Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address: narrative signature and interpretation / Martin J. Medhurst; title: To exist, you need an ideology: Alan Greenspan on markets, crisis, and democracy / Robert Asen.