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  • For the Enjoyment of the People

    The Creation of National Identity in American Public Lands

    National parks are widely revered as “America’s best idea”—they are abundantly popular and remarkably noncontroversial in the United States. American presidents use these parks to stake their claims to environmentalism, assert a singular national history, and define a unified national identity, often doing so inside the parks themselves. However, the establishment and history of almost every ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Used, Abused, and Sidelined

    Debating the Declaration

    Edited by Mary E. Stuckey ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    Since it was published in 1776, the Declaration of Independence has been used to advocate for social justice and to maintain inequitable social hierarchies; it has served as a model for justifying revolutions in other nations and for the Confederacy’s secession from the US federal government. But as we approach its 250th anniversary, this book asks: Does the Declaration still matter?In this volume ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Defining Americans

    The Presidency and National Identity

    Winner: Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication AwardWinner: APSA Presidents and Executive Politics Legacy AwardAndrew Jackson spoke to Americans in ways that reflected the concerns of a young nation. Grover Cleveland helped citizens redefine themselves after the havoc of the Civil War era. FDR confronted widespread hardship with hope and determination, while Eisenhower spoke to our fears of the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Deplorable

    The Worst Presidential Campaigns from Jefferson to Trump

    Political campaigns in the United States, especially those for the presidency, can be nasty—very nasty. And while we would like to believe that the 2020 election was an aberration, insults, invective, and yes, even violence have characterized US electoral politics since the republic’s early days. By examining the political discourse around nine particularly deplorable elections, Mary E. Stuckey ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Good Neighbor

    Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of American Power

    Series series 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 states and localities to the federal government; within the federal government it shifted from Congress to the president; and internationally, it moved from Europe to the United States. All of these changes required significant effort on the part of ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Political Vocabularies

    FDR, the Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument

    Series series Rhetoric & Public Affairs
    Political Vocabularies: FDR, the Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument uses a set of letters sent to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 by American clergymen to make a larger argument about the rhetorical processes of our national politics. At any given moment, national politics are constituted by competing political imaginaries, through which citizens understand and participate in ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Political Rhetoric

    A Presidential Briefing Book

    Series series Presidential Briefings Series
    Rhetoric is among the most important and least understood elements of presidential leadership. Presidents have always wielded rhetoric as one tool of governance—and that rhetoric was always intended to facilitate political ends, such as image building, persuasion of the mass public, and inter-branch government persuasion. But as mass media has grown and then fragmented, as the federal bureaucracy ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Voting Deliberatively

    FDR and the 1936 Presidential Campaign

    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    The 1932 election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt seemed to hold the promise of Democratic domination for years to come. However, leading up to the 1936 election, persistent economic problems, a controversial domestic agenda, and the perception of a weak foreign policy were chipping away at public support. The president faced unrelenting criticism from both the Left and the Right, and it seemed ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Remembering Jefferson

    Who He Was, Who We Are

    Finalist, Susanne M. Glasscock Book PrizeAn expert on presidential history and national identity explores the complicated and conflicted ways Americans remember Thomas Jefferson and what these impressions reveal about the nation he helped to found.Thomas Jefferson is everywhere. In Washington, DC, and on Mount Rushmore. In history textbooks and children’s picture books. On Broadway and HBO. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric

    Communicating Self-Determination

    Series Book 36 - Frontiers in Political Communication
    As survivors of genocide, mnemonicide, colonization, and forced assimilation, American Indians face a unique set of rhetorical exigencies in US public culture. Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric brings together critical essays on the cultural and political rhetoric of American indigenous communities, including essays on the politics of public memory, culture and identity controversies, ... Read more

    $63.09 USD

  • Religious Freedom v. Equal Protection

    Clashing American Rights

    Series Book 47 - Frontiers in Political Communication
    This book examines significant clashes in First and Fourteenth Amendment issues in America. Any course in America that studies constitutional issues may benefit from focusing on a variety of issues raised in this book, including child torture and access to mandatory reporters, placing children into adoptive homes, prayer in public schools, religious tax exemptions, roadside memorials, military ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Sport, Rhetoric, and Political Struggle

    Series Book 35 - Frontiers in Political Communication
    Sport, Rhetoric, and Political Struggle addresses a needed next step for advancing sport as a site of inquiry in rhetorical studies. The book claims that sport is central to contemporary antagonisms over, for example, gender and sexual binarism, queer visibilities, race and labor relations, public health, domestic violence, global institutional corruption, and posthuman body politics. The authors' ... Read more

    $45.79 USD