Book Review| December 01 2015 Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama: A Story of Poor Custodians Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama: A Story of Poor Custodians. By Samuel Walker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012; pp. vii + 546. $120.00 cloth; $44.99 paper. Zoë Hess Carney Zoë Hess Carney Georgia State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (4): 745–748. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0745 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Zoë Hess Carney; Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama: A Story of Poor Custodians. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2015; 18 (4): 745–748. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0745 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2015 The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement. By Jay P. Childers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012; pp. x + 220. $54.95 cloth; $27.95 paper. Kristy Maddux Kristy Maddux University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (4): 741–744. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0741 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kristy Maddux; The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2015; 18 (4): 741–744. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0741 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2015 Executing Democracy, volume 2, Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1835–1843 Executing Democracy, volume 2, Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1835–1843. By Stephen John Hartnett. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012; pp. vii + 342. $59.95 cloth. Lisa M. Corrigan Lisa M. Corrigan University of Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (4): 801–804. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0801 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa M. Corrigan; Executing Democracy, volume 2, Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1835–1843. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2015; 18 (4): 801–804. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0801 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2015 Communicating Environmental Patriotism: A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement Communicating Environmental Patriotism: A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement. By Anne Marie Todd. New York: Routledge, 2013; pp. 168. $135.00 cloth. James Coleman McGuffey James Coleman McGuffey Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (4): 763–766. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0763 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James Coleman McGuffey; Communicating Environmental Patriotism: A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2015; 18 (4): 763–766. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0763 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2015 In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity. By Jeannine Marie DeLombard. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012; pp. x + 446. $59.95 cloth; $27.50 paper. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard Bjørn F. Stillion Southard University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (4): 798–801. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0798 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bjørn F. Stillion Southard; In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2015; 18 (4): 798–801. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0798 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2015 Disability Rhetoric Disability Rhetoric. By Jay Timothy Dolmage. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014; pp. 304. $39.95 cloth. R. Kyle Kellam R. Kyle Kellam Marian University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (4): 766–769. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0766 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation R. Kyle Kellam; Disability Rhetoric. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2015; 18 (4): 766–769. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0766 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| September 01 2015 The Man for All Seasons: Bruce Gronbeck Martin J. Medhurst Martin J. Medhurst Martin J. Medhurst is Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Communication and Professor of Political Science at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (3): 547–566. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0547 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Martin J. Medhurst; The Man for All Seasons: Bruce Gronbeck. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2015; 18 (3): 547–566. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0547 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| September 01 2015 "It's always more complicated than that": Bruce Gronbeck on Visual Method Leslie A. Hahner Leslie A. Hahner Leslie A. Hahner is Assistant Professor of Communication at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (3): 607–618. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0607 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Leslie A. Hahner; "It's always more complicated than that": Bruce Gronbeck on Visual Method. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2015; 18 (3): 607–618. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0607 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This essay analyzes Ralph Ellison’s 1943 “Editorial Comment” from the Negro Quarterly. In the editorial, Ellison highlighted the shortcomings of black America’s attitudinal responses to World War II; as a corrective, he offered “critical participation,” which entailed supporting U.S. and Allied principles while remaining vigilant against white supremacy. I argue that Ellison’s editorial signified more than just a meditation on wartime political strategies; it also marked the articulation of black community. Through a close reading of Ellison’s editorial, I contend that the text grounded black community in the enactment of self-conscious doubleness. Ellison’s appeal to self-conscious doubleness contributed to African American intellectual culture in that it outlined an innovative way for navigating the constraints of “double consciousness.” Rather than regarding doubleness as indicative of a static identity, Ellison engaged it as a source of dynamic rhetorical possibility.

Abstract This essay continues the ongoing discussion Robert Terrill began and Joshua Reeves and Matthew May joined regarding the moral, philosophical, and rhetorical choices made in Barack Obama’s 2009 Nobel lecture. We argue that Obama’s address is best understood as an articulation of Reinhold Niebuhr’s rhetoric of Christian Realism—Obama wrote the lecture himself and prepared for it by studying the influential theologian’s works. Importantly, Obama is not the first rhetor to use the moral and political thought of Niebuhr to situate his or her public address; the list includes Martin Luther King Jr., Saul Alinsky, Jimmy Carter, John McCain, and Hillary Clinton. Yet Niebuhr’s vocabulary remains largely unstudied by public address scholars and rhetorical theorists. We argue that criticizing the moral and political judgments made in Obama’s address by the Niebuhrian standards the president sets for it provides an alternative method by which to evaluate the speech’s successes and failures. In so doing, we also provide the field of public address with its first account of the rhetorical possibilities and limitations of Reinhold Niebuhr’s work, specifically his vision of a “spiritualized-technician”—a rhetor who speaks the language of realism, idealism, and irony, to expand an audience’s moral imagination.

Abstract This essay examines an early alternative to polling, Mass-Observation (M-O), that dramatically reported on the nuances, contradictions, and passions of public opinion during some of the most extraordinary times in British history. Between the Abdication Crisis of 1937 and the start of World War II, M-O’s combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, along with its emphasis on the cultural context of public opinion, produced a richer, more textured, and more deliberative rhetoric of public opinion than the Gallup poll’s survey techniques. In the process, M-O foreshadowed many of today’s scholarly trends, including the reflexive turn in social research, increased skepticism about the knowledge claims of science, and the emergence of more public scholarship.

Research Article| September 01 2015 Writing Bruce into Memory A. Susan Owen A. Susan Owen A. Susan Owen is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (3): 575–586. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0575 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation A. Susan Owen; Writing Bruce into Memory. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2015; 18 (3): 575–586. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0575 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| September 01 2015 Bruce Gronbeck’s Gift: A Hermeneutics of Hospitality Celeste M. Condit Celeste M. Condit Celeste M. Condit is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia, Athens. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (3): 567–574. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0567 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Celeste M. Condit; Bruce Gronbeck’s Gift: A Hermeneutics of Hospitality. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2015; 18 (3): 567–574. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0567 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This essay investigates the anti-democratic rhetoric of The Federalist. In The Federalist, politics is imagined via the medical logics of the eighteenth century. For Publius, democracy is an incitement to factions and incubator of disease because it requires citizens to gather in deliberative “public bodies.” In describing democratic “disease,” The Federalist claims that the body politic is always already a threat to itself and frames the role of governance as the management of the emergence of those threats. In so doing, The Federalist forwards an early American rhetoric of misodemia—the hatred of democracy.

Research Article| September 01 2015 Bruce Gronbeck and the Lived Experience of Tradition John M. Sloop John M. Sloop John M. Sloop is Professor of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (3): 599–606. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0599 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John M. Sloop; Bruce Gronbeck and the Lived Experience of Tradition. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2015; 18 (3): 599–606. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0599 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This article considers the rhetoric of Phyllis Schlafly and her STOP ERA movement. Despite the early success and broad popularity of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, Schlafly and her colleagues were able to prevent its ratification. In their many clashes with proponents of the women’s liberation movement, these traditionalist women successfully appropriated and redeployed an ideographic argument that had been the province of their foes. Specifically, Schlafly claimed that traditional gender roles were freeing to women, ensuring their rights, while “liberation” could lead only to bondage. Drawing on the work of philosopher Isaiah Berlin, I argue that Schlafly’s upbeat, “positive” campaign advanced a “positive” conception of freedom against the “negative” freedom proposed by second-wave feminists. The success of this effort demonstrates the utility of such arguments, especially in a nation that values freedom as both opportunity and exercise. I close by suggesting that Schlafly’s rhetorical strategy has been embraced by subsequent conservative “culture war” movements, ensuring her legacy into the new millennium.

Other| June 01 2015 Rhetorical Studies and the Gun Debate: A Public Policy Perspective J. Michael Hogan; J. Michael Hogan J. Michael Hogan is Liberal Arts Research Professor and Director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation at Penn State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Craig Rood Craig Rood Craig Rood is a Ph.D. student in Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (2): 359–372. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.2.0359 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J. Michael Hogan, Craig Rood; Rhetorical Studies and the Gun Debate: A Public Policy Perspective. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2015; 18 (2): 359–372. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.2.0359 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Forum: Responses to Collins on the Second Amendment You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract In 2008, two of the leading presidential candidates emerged from controversial, outsider religious groups—Mormonism and the black church tradition. Dogged by ongoing questions from the media, each candidate produced a high-profile public address. In this article, I argue that Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America” and Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” craft competing visions for American civic piety. Drawing on recent literature in the area of practical piety, I read the speeches as evidence that civic piety may be more than a subordinating, pragmatic agreement between church and state. It may instead be read as a spiritually substantive space of cultural identity formation. I further conclude that the 2008 election reveals a contested piety in the midst of transition, and that this transition points in a relatively well-defined direction for American civil-religious culture.

Book Review| June 01 2015 Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta’s God Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta’s God. By Ebony A. Utley. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2012; pp. 190. $37.00 cloth. Rudo Mudiwa Rudo Mudiwa Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (2): 395–398. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.2.0395 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rudo Mudiwa; Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta’s God. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2015; 18 (2): 395–398. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.2.0395 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract President Ronald Reagan’s June 6, 1984, “Address on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day” is one of his most celebrated speeches, and yet no critical assessment of the address exists in rhetorical scholarship. In this article, I examine this speech as a deictic epideictic address, or a speech in which the rhetor uses the physical place, the immediate scene/setting, and the assembled audience as evidence to commemorate the past and chart a clear course for the future. Through this analysis, I argue that Reagan’s speech at Pointe du Hoc is exemplary because it relies on rhetorical vision and deixis to connect a past moment to the present, and in so doing, invites the audience to participate in the discourse emotionally, mentally, and even physically. I conclude by suggesting that a deictic approach to rhetorical criticism offers scholars a vocabulary to describe how speakers can “point” or refer to the physical and material elements of a speech setting as evidence for their argument.

Book Review| June 01 2015 Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law. By Isaac West. New York: New York University Press, 2014; pp. xii + 235. $24.00 paper. Anjali Vats Anjali Vats Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (2): 389–392. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.2.0389 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Anjali Vats; Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2015; 18 (2): 389–392. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.2.0389 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

On June 10, 2014, Emilio Hoffman was shot and killed in a gym locker room and a teacher was wounded in a Troutdale, Oregon school. The shooter killed himself after a shootout with police. Two days earlier, a couple shot two police officers at point blank range in a restaurant, covered one of them with a Gadsden flag and a swastika, and then later killed an armed civilian who tried to stop them in a Walmart. They died by their own hands. On June 5, 2014, a gunman at Seattle Pacific University shot one student and injured two others before being stopped with pepper spray and disarmed by a student. This came on the heels of another shooting in May in Isla Vista, California, where a man stabbed his three roommates to death, shot and killed three others, and injured 13 others—eight by gunshot and four by hitting them with his car. He died by his own hand. Similar incidents have received widespread attention: Newtown, Connecticut; Virginia Tech; and Fort Hood stand out in recent memory because of their coverage by the mass media. However, these events represent only a small fraction of gun violence in the United States. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence reports that “on average, 32 Americans are murdered with guns every day and 140 are treated for a gun assault in an emergency room.” As was the case in the killings at ThurstonHigh School, ColumbineHigh School, and Virginia Tech, many expected stronger gun control legislation

Abstract The perceived social value of higher education in the United States and the political will to fund it represents a fascinating paradox. This article explores one way that paradox is reconciled. I look closely at the emergence of a specific educational critique in the discourse of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The critique encourages a neoliberal reinvention of higher education. It does so by constructing symbolic representations that align with preexisting public vocabularies and socially shared orientations reflected in images of the Deserving and Undeserving Poor. By illuminating the discursive techniques by which these representations construct an image of what I call the Undeserving Professor, the critique offers significant theoretical and political insights into an underexplored area of rhetoric, neoliberalism, and public affairs.

Book Review| June 01 2015 The Promise of Reason: Studies in The New Rhetoric The Promise of Reason: Studies in The New Rhetoric. Edited by John T. Gage. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2011; pp. 272. $60.00 cloth. Janice W. Fernheimer Janice W. Fernheimer University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (2): 402–406. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.2.0402 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Janice W. Fernheimer; The Promise of Reason: Studies in The New Rhetoric. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2015; 18 (2): 402–406. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.2.0402 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2015 Letters to Power: Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals Letters to Power: Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals. By Samuel McCormick. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011; pp. 197. $64.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. James H. Collier James H. Collier Virginia Tech Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 195–198. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0195 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James H. Collier; Letters to Power: Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2015; 18 (1): 195–198. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0195 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract Jesus often spoke about the Christian obligation to provide for the poor. Yet, public opinion polls and scholarly studies consistently find that conservative Protestant voters favor economic policies of low taxes, limited state spending on welfare, and personal responsibility for financial success. This study uses evangelical sermons as a means for analyzing how conservative economic discourse, defined as a preference for limited government interference in market activities, proliferated inside American megachurches over four years following the 2008 recession. It also examines how pastors of large congregations rhetorically justified support for policies that scholars have shown work against the economic interests of middle-class and poor citizens alike. The study found that when megachurch pastors speak about economic issues, they deploy language and arguments that emphasize American economic providence and the need for individuals to take personal responsibility for financial outcomes, premises that afforded pastors the discursive space necessary for making claims about the superiority of private charity over public welfare. These findings suggest that, contrary to arguments that situate the public discourse of conservative Protestants as being mostly about social issues, there is inside evangelicalism a robust conversation about financial questions. This economic discourse is strikingly similar to that of nonreligious conservatives in the United States, a confluence that works to create a rhetorical resonance among the base constituencies inside the Republican Party and so fortify its ideological appeal and strength.

Book Review| March 01 2015 Global Memoryscapes: Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age Global Memoryscapes: Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age. Edited by Kendall R. Phillips and G. Mitchell Reyes. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011; pp. 231. $26.00 paper. Cynthia Duquette Smith Cynthia Duquette Smith Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 191–195. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0191 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Cynthia Duquette Smith; Global Memoryscapes: Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2015; 18 (1): 191–195. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0191 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Other| March 01 2015 The Intimate and Ugly Politics of Emancipation Kirt H. Wilson Kirt H. Wilson Kirt H. Wilson is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Public Discourse at Pennsylvania State University in State College. He thanks Charles E. Morris III for organizing this forum and his fellow authors for their insightful interpretations. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 121–128. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0121 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kirt H. Wilson; The Intimate and Ugly Politics of Emancipation. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2015; 18 (1): 121–128. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0121 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2015 Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture. By Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013; pp. xi + 242. $45.00 cloth. Allison M. Prasch Allison M. Prasch University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 177–181. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0177 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Allison M. Prasch; Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2015; 18 (1): 177–181. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0177 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Other| March 01 2015 Saving the Emancipator Brian J. Snee Brian J. Snee Brian J. Snee is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 141–146. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0141 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brian J. Snee; Saving the Emancipator. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2015; 18 (1): 141–146. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0141 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract At the outset of the 2012 presidential race, Republican candidate Mitt Romney touted his private sector leadership of the private equity firm Bain Capital. As this election unfolded, Romney’s Bain Capital story became less of a narrative he could run on and more of a narrative he had to run from. Why did this Bain Capital story, a story about someone’s success in the free marketplace in a society that seemingly values such success, become so troubling for the Romney campaign? This question constitutes the centerpiece of the present essay. In addressing this question, we argue that the Bain Capital narrative’s role in the 2012 presidential race divulges a great deal about the fundamental nature of economic discourse in American democracy. Specifically, we contend that the economic narratives circulating in American democracy actually construct a tale of two economies—a tangible economy and a speculative economy. Unfortunately for Romney, his Bain Capital narrative situated him on the wrong side of this economic divide.

Other| March 01 2015 Slave Photographs in Lincoln Cara A. Finnegan Cara A. Finnegan Cara A. Finnegan is Conrad Humanities Professorial Scholar in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines the role of photography in public life. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 129–134. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0129 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cara A. Finnegan; Slave Photographs in Lincoln. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2015; 18 (1): 129–134. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0129 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2015 The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition. By Andre E. Johnson. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012; pp. viii + 127. $60.00 cloth. Theon E. Hill Theon E. Hill West Chester University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 184–187. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0184 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Theon E. Hill; The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2015; 18 (1): 184–187. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0184 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2015 The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama. By Richard W. Leeman. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012; pp. vii + 275. $75.00 cloth. Derek Sweet Derek Sweet Luther College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 181–184. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0181 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Derek Sweet; The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2015; 18 (1): 181–184. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0181 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Review Article| March 01 2015 Bad Feelings in Public: Rhetoric, Affect, and Emotion Depression: A Public Feeling. By Ann Cvetkovich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012; pp. xi + 278. $84.95 cloth; $23.95 paper.Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument: Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist. By Barbara Tomlinson. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010; pp. viii + 279. $79.50 cloth; $30.95 paper.The Promise of Happiness. By Sara Ahmed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010; pp. x + 315. $89.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. Erin J. Rand Erin J. Rand Erin J. Rand is Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University in New York. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 161–176. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Erin J. Rand; Bad Feelings in Public: Rhetoric, Affect, and Emotion. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2015; 18 (1): 161–176. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0161 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Other| March 01 2015 Lincoln: The “Double Consciousness” of the Man and the President Shawn J. Parry-Giles; Shawn J. Parry-Giles Shawn J. Parry-Giles is Professor of Rhetoric and Political Culture in the Department of Communication and Director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland in College Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David S. Kaufer David S. Kaufer David S. Kaufer is Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The authors would like to thank Dr. Charles E. Morris III for his insightful feedback on the essay. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 147–154. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0147 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Shawn J. Parry-Giles, David S. Kaufer; Lincoln: The “Double Consciousness” of the Man and the President. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2015; 18 (1): 147–154. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0147 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract In Renaissance Rome, Pasquino was the name of a curmudgeon who earned a reputation among the popolo for circulating satirical barbs about the colloquy and conduct of politico-religious officials. Commemorated and conserved in a statue that remains his namesake, Pasquino became a figure for the civic ritual of bodying forth unease with and distaste for corrupt Italian politics. Pasquinades, or anonymous squibs posted on and around the statue, represent a tradition of transgression in and on public statuary in Italy. This essay examines the age-old Roman practice of defacing so-called “talking statues” according to its communalization of oppositional politics that both defy and defile the symbols and mainstays of public space. Specifically, I approach Pasquino as a rhetorical body and the pasquinades as bodying forth tactile, visual, and verbal inscriptions of disgust. Pasquino is monumental because he evokes popular opinion and political activity by capturing satiric commentaries on Italian public culture. Ultimately, I argue that the statuary satire of Pasquino provides a traditional space of rhetorical performance through which the iterative contours of ridicule survive in “living” symbols of resistance.