Other| March 01 2015 Lincoln’s Queer Hands Charles E. Morris, III Charles E. Morris, III Charles E. Morris III is Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University in New York, and Co-Editor of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. Many thanks to the students in my fall 2013 seminar, “Lincoln’s Rhetorical Worlds,” for their smart and lively conversation and inspiration. As always, Scott Rose makes this and all my labors of love possible. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 135–140. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0135 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 Charles E. Morris; Lincoln’s Queer Hands. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2015; 18 (1): 135–140. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0135 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| December 01 2014 Weapons and Words: Rhetorical Studies of the Gabrielle Giffords Shootings Thomas A. Hollihan; Thomas A. Hollihan Thomas A. Hollihan is Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Francesca Marie Smith Francesca Marie Smith Francesca Marie Smith is a doctoral candidate and Provost's Fellow at the USC Annenberg School. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (4): 577–584. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.4.0577 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas A. Hollihan, Francesca Marie Smith; Weapons and Words: Rhetorical Studies of the Gabrielle Giffords Shootings. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2014; 17 (4): 577–584. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.4.0577 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract During his first term as president, Barack Obama delivered four national eulogies at the sites of gun violence tragedies, two of which garnered considerable national attention: one delivered in Tucson, Arizona on January 12, 2011 (following the attack on Representative Gabrielle Giffords and an assembled crowd), and another in Newtown, Connecticut on December 16, 2012 (following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School). The deaths of innocents, the result of a host of causes, required the president to face the issue of gun violence, help the nation work through the trauma, and create the conditions of civility necessary for policy action. At Tucson, Obama drew from the book of Job to explain that the evil in Tucson happened “for reasons that defy human understanding.” In his Newtown address, Obama replaced the more fatalistic theology of his Tucson memorial with a spirit of perseverance and renewal rooted in 2 Corinthians. In this essay, I suggest that Obama’s eulogy at Newtown serves as a counterpart to the call Obama advanced in the Tucson address. I argue that, though the messages embedded in the Tucson speech serve as a legitimate theological and epistemological check on the presumptions of reason, the Newtown address better met the aspirations of civility because it led to a consideration of policies designed to reduce gun violence.

n American politics, we often equate rights, particularly constitutional rights, with freedom. It is as if we can discern how free we are by how well our constitutional rights are preserved. Political theorist Linda Zerilli cautions against such thinking: When rights become institutionalized, we tend to forget their origin in a radical, ungrounded claim to freedom, to non-domination and to equal participation in public affairs. We tend to become invested in securing them as such, rather than in maintaining our investment in the sometimes less stable practices that created them in the first place. 1

Abstract This essay considers questions about civility raised in the discourse responding to the January 2011 shootings in Tucson, Arizona. Focusing on two sites of discord—the debate in the media and President Obama’s address at the memorial service for the victims—our analysis identifies two conceptions of civility and their corresponding assumptions about democracy and community, provides a critique of both conceptions, and offers a conceptual framework for rhetorical critics studying civility.

Abstract In this essay, we examine public responses to Jared Lee Loughner’s attempted assassination of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, focusing in particular on the rhetorical strategies employed by political conservatives. We argue that the most prominent conservative reactions either undermined the potential for reasoned debate and a cohesive narrative regarding the causes of the attack or, by emphasizing Loughner’s agency as an individual, deranged actor, painted the event in a way that failed to provide transformative redemption, foreclosed even the possibility of a rhetorically satisfying sense of justice, and preempted what could otherwise have been a rich, deliberative deployment of civility. We utilize Kenneth Burke’s dramatism in speculating about possible alternative interpretations of the situation, hopeful that such an analysis might offer both the public and the government more effective rhetorical resources for dealing with and even preventing such increasingly common tragedies. In particular, we advocate the use of a hybrid, tragicomic frame—a sort of Burkean Serenity Prayer in which we accept the things we cannot change while still finding the inspiration, strength, and wisdom to respond productively—alongside a multifaceted set of pentadic ratios to address the complex demands created by mental illness.

Book Review| December 01 2014 After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War. By Douglas L. Kriner. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2010; pp. 322. $97.00 cloth; $32.00 paper. Matthew C. Pitchford Matthew C. Pitchford University of Illinois, Urbana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (4): 757–760. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.4.0757 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Matthew C. Pitchford; After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2014; 17 (4): 757–760. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.4.0757 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract Gabrielle Giffords survived, recovered, and returned to public life after being badly wounded by an assassination attempt on January 8, 2011. During this extended ordeal, the Arizona representative mobilized lyric, dramatic, and oratorical resources into a singular, untimely rhetoric. I contend that she invoked the cultural resources of Polyhymnia—a classical figure reminding us of the ingenious, contingent resourcefulness among the symbolic arts—to recover her public agency in a time of deep incivility and public violence. In this essay, I find Giffords’s rhetoric, including her appearances, speeches, interviews, testimony, and editorials from 2011 through 2013, to comprise acts of civil courage.

Abstract In the immediate aftermath of the Tucson, Arizona, shootings in 2011, controversy erupted over the role, if any, that Tea Party rhetoric had played in inciting Jared Lee Loughner’s rampage. Especially controversial was Sarah Palin’s video, “America’s Enduring Strength,” which denied that this rhetoric was responsible and, in fact, celebrated it as quintessential free speech. This essay makes two related arguments. First, although context encourages audiences to expect political self-defense, Palin’s video is neither deliberative nor forensic but epideictic: a celebration of abstract values so severed from circumstances that Palin et al. become heroically, purely virtuous, while those who dare raise the question of responsibility that is central to deliberation (“who, or what, is to blame, and what, then, is to be done?”) become vicious. However, this move is obscured because Palin’s version of free speech simultaneously inhabits the prevailing, and limited, social and legal understanding of the First Amendment. Hence, we also argue that a consequentialist framework for free expression is less suited to revealing the video’s troubling rhetoric of free speech than is a constitutive framework, such as has been proffered by some scholars of hate speech. To the extent that the consequentialist framework dominates constitutional jurisprudence and public understanding, however, “America’s Enduring Strength” also manifests America’s enduring problem in coming to grips with Tucson and other mass shootings.

Book Review| September 01 2014 Observation Points: The Visual Poetics of National Parks Observation Points: The Visual Poetics of National Parks. Edited by Thomas Patin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012; pp. xxvi + 296. $82.50 cloth, $27.50 paper. Joshua Trey Barnett Joshua Trey Barnett Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (3): 568–571. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0568 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joshua Trey Barnett; Observation Points: The Visual Poetics of National Parks. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2014; 17 (3): 568–571. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0568 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract The myth of the heroic teacher posits that transformational educators, through sheer will, dedication, and selflessness, can break through complacent school bureaucracies to alter the lives of students born into difficult circumstances. Like all myths, the heroic teacher myth functions as depoliticized speech; it reconciles the competing egalitarian and individualistic components of the American Dream by providing a heroic resolution to indissoluble tensions. As president, Lyndon B. Johnson invoked his experience as an educator to construct a character formally aligned with historic conceptions of ideal teaching. Through this construction, he developed a framework of educational heroism that related synecdochically to the institutional reforms propounded by his landmark education legislation. By analyzing Johnson’s education policy rhetoric between 1964 and 1966, I argue that Johnson’s use of the heroic teacher myth operated to shift the antipoverty emphasis of the Great Society to the center of federal calls for education reform. I conclude by juxtaposing Johnson’s invocation of the myth against that of contemporary education reformers, who marshal the myth toward a less sustainable vision of education that valorizes heroic teachers as the solitary cure for poverty.

Abstract This essay maintains that the intensive anger that scholars have dismissed in Margaret Sanger’s The Woman Rebel functioned rhetorically to redefine morality in the Progressive Era. After advancing a theory of angry rhetoric as a public moral emotion, I offer a reading strategy of emotional adherence to track anger’s diffuse discursive power in The Woman Rebel. The angry rhetoric of The Woman Rebel not only laid a new cultural ideal for the morality of contraception, it also constituted a militant identity for those oriented by their anger at The Woman Rebel’s suppression and Sanger’s criminal indictments. This essay closes by meditating upon the lasting role that anger has played in energizing the International Planned Parenthood Federation over the past 60 years.

Book Review| September 01 2014 Hearing the Hurt: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, & Politics of the New Negro Movement Hearing the Hurt: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, & Politics of the New Negro Movement. By Eric King Watts. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012; pp. vix + 246. $39.95 cloth. Mark Lawrence McPhail Mark Lawrence McPhail University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (3): 548–553. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0548 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mark Lawrence McPhail; Hearing the Hurt: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, & Politics of the New Negro Movement. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2014; 17 (3): 548–553. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0548 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract President Obama’s speech following the January 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona employed a series of temporal shifts to help the nation integrate the tragedy into its collective consciousness. This essay identifies four dimensions of temporality that were developed in the Tucson Memorial Address and analyzes their interrelationships. It argues that rhetoric can better facilitate judgment by providing auditors with multiple interrelated but individually untotalizable temporal perspectives. By that standard, the Tucson Address employs a temporal network that serves as a significant impediment to rhetorical judgment.

Abstract The critically acclaimed 2010 documentary film Waiting for “Superman” depicts American public education as a fundamentally flawed system and argues that privately managed charter schools are the best solution to our country’s education crisis. This essay argues that Waiting for “Superman” is significant because of how successfully its argument for charter schools appealed to a broad and politically diverse audience. After tracing the rhetoric of contemporary pro-privatization education reform from the Reagan administration’s 1983 A Nation at Risk report to current pro-charter-school reform efforts, this article aims to demonstrate how the film’s populist overtones, packaged in a traditionally liberal medium, work to strategically conceal the filmmaker’s neoliberal agenda.

Book Review| September 01 2014 Spiritual Modalities: Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance Spiritual Modalities: Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance. By William Fitzgerald. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012; pp. 158. $54.95 cloth. Philip Perdue Philip Perdue Indiana University Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (3): 561–565. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0561 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Philip Perdue; Spiritual Modalities: Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2014; 17 (3): 561–565. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0561 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| September 01 2014 Cold War Progressives: Women’s Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom Cold War Progressives: Women’s Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom. By Jacqueline Castledine. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012; pp. 1 + 210. $45.00 cloth. Angela M. McGowan Angela M. McGowan University of Southern Mississippi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (3): 558–561. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0558 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Angela M. McGowan; Cold War Progressives: Women’s Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2014; 17 (3): 558–561. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0558 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract Christian fundamentalism is a doctrinal system and an argumentative frame, but it also functions as a “countermovement” whose members advocate resistance from a purported place of ecclesial and political marginalization. This article explores the roots of early fundamentalist resistance rhetoric as it manifested through a series of “countersymbols”—oppositional condensation symbols that invoke the corruption of an idealized community by its other to rhetorically justify resistance as necessary response.

Book Review| September 01 2014 Militant Citizenship: Rhetorical Strategies of the National Woman’s Party, 1913–1920 Militant Citizenship: Rhetorical Strategies of the National Woman’s Party, 1913–1920. By Belinda A. Stillion Southard. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2011; pp. ix + 303. $45.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Megan G. Bernard Megan G. Bernard Roosevelt University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (3): 544–548. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0544 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Megan G. Bernard; Militant Citizenship: Rhetorical Strategies of the National Woman’s Party, 1913–1920. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2014; 17 (3): 544–548. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0544 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| September 01 2014 The Good Neighbor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of American Power The Good Neighbor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of American Power. By Mary E. Stuckey. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013; pp vii + 300. $59.95 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 (2014) 17 (3): 553–558. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0553 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Allison M. Prasch; The Good Neighbor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of American Power. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2014; 17 (3): 553–558. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0553 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2014 The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks. By Timothy Messer-Kruse. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012; pp. vii + 236. $85.00 cloth; $30.00 paper. James Patrick Dimock James Patrick Dimock Minnesota State University, Mankato Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (2): 367–371. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0367 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James Patrick Dimock; The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2014; 17 (2): 367–371. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0367 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2014 Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Participation Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Participation. Edited by Christian Kock and Lisa S. Villadsen. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012; pp. vvii + 341. $84.95 cloth. Jessica M. Prody Jessica M. Prody St. Lawrence University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (2): 355–358. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0355 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 Jessica M. Prody; Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Participation. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2014; 17 (2): 355–358. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0355 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2014 Cruel Optimism Cruel Optimism. By Lauren Berlant. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011; pp. viii + 342. $89.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. Emily Dianne Cram Emily Dianne Cram Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (2): 371–374. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0371 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Emily Dianne Cram; Cruel Optimism. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2014; 17 (2): 371–374. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0371 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This essay defines and describes the atheistic voice. Drawing from Thomas Lessl’s “voice” metaphor (“The Priestly Voice”), the logology of Kenneth Burke, and the literary insights of Mikhail Bakhtin, I map out the rhetorical tropes of the atheistic voice by analyzing the rhetoric of Christopher Hitchens, which exemplifies the atheistic voice as a rhetorical ideal. Hitchens demonstrates that the rhetorical strategies of burlesque and grotesque rejection are the atheistic voice’s primary means of ridiculing and tearing down the god-terms of priestly and bardic discourses. After analyzing these strategies, I point to concerns—some perennial, some contemporary—that the ebb and flow of atheistic voices in a democratic public sphere present.

Book Review| June 01 2014 Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier. Edited by D. Robert DeChaine. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012; pp. 273. $34.95 paper. Stacey K. Sowards Stacey K. Sowards University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (2): 363–367. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0363 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stacey K. Sowards; Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2014; 17 (2): 363–367. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0363 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This article explores questions about “civility” in the 2012 election. Through an analysis of media discussions raising the term, four themes are constructed focusing on the limitations of civility discourse. While seeking to preserve the best that civil orientations afford, I argue that adding a deliberative approach to such discourse addresses moments when civil appeals appear to be most limited. This essay finds that working between civil and deliberative constructs provides an instructive perspective for understanding the workings of and possibilities for public discourse during situations when civility rhetoric is typically raised. Relative to civil communication—and associated concepts such as dialogue and advocacy—specific norms, benefits, examples, and implications of a deliberative rhetorical vision are charted for problem-solving, public policy contexts.

Book Review| June 01 2014 Democracy and Rhetoric: John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming Democracy and Rhetoric: John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming. By Nathan Crick. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010; pp. xii + 224. $49.95 cloth. Scott Welsh Scott Welsh Appalachian State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (2): 361–363. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0361 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 Scott Welsh; Democracy and Rhetoric: John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2014; 17 (2): 361–363. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0361 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2014 Stumping God: Reagan, Carter, and the Invention of a Political Faith Stumping God: Reagan, Carter, and the Invention of a Political Faith. By Andrew P. Hogue. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012; pp. vii + 333. $49.95 cloth. Sarah Chenoweth Sarah Chenoweth University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (2): 349–352. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0349 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 Sarah Chenoweth; Stumping God: Reagan, Carter, and the Invention of a Political Faith. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2014; 17 (2): 349–352. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0349 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract Rhetorical scholarship and cultural commentary have demonstrated that environmentalist voices are consistently associated with apocalyptic rhetoric. However, this association deflects attention from the apocalyptic rhetoric that comes from industry and countermovements to environmentalism. This essay seeks to remedy that oversight by proposing the concept of “industrial apocalyptic” as a significant rhetorical form in environmental controversy. Based on analysis of the rhetoric of the U.S. coal industry, we find that these industrial apocalyptic narratives rely on a burlesque frame to disrupt the categories of establishment and outsider and thus thwart environmental regulation. Ultimately, we argue that industrial apocalyptic co-opts environmentalist appeals for radical change in the service of blocking such change and naturalizes neoliberal ideology as the commonsense discourse of the center.

Book Review| June 01 2014 The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics. By Scott Welsh. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013; pp. 206. $65.00 cloth. Liz Sills; Liz Sills Louisiana State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nathan Crick Nathan Crick Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (2): 352–355. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0352 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Liz Sills, Nathan Crick; The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2014; 17 (2): 352–355. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0352 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract Winston Churchill is commonly considered to have written some of the greatest speeches of the twentieth century, yet few of them have been analyzed in any depth. This essay attempts to examine in detail one of the most famous and, indeed, most important of these speeches, the “we shall fight” oration, given in the House of Commons on June 4, 1940, at the end of the evacuation of British and French troops from Dunkirk. It considers the differing audiences that Churchill was writing for and the message he was attempting to give to each. It also studies the different levels that the prime minister sees to the conflict: the concrete one in which he describes the actual combat and the abstract one in which Good battles Evil on a cosmic stage. On the first level, Dunkirk is a disaster that cannot be denied or hidden from the British people. On the second, however, it is a victory—a moral one only but one that has its own importance for Churchill. The context of the time is also examined. In particular, the famous last paragraph is given an in-depth analysis that leads to some rather surprising results.

Abstract In 1950, William Faulkner delivered his “Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature.” The historic moment was one of high atomic anxiety as the unfriendly relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union intensified and the possibility of nuclear war and the end of humanity increased. Faulkner recognized the anxiety and, through his address, offered a language to help cope with the anxieties of the atomic age. This study examines how through the rhetorical strategies of kairos, decorum, and enactment, Faulkner recast humanism in an atomic age and presented the world with a way of living through atomic fear.

Book Review| June 01 2014 Lacan in Public: Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric Lacan in Public: Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric. By Christian Lundberg. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012; pp. xiv + 221. $44.95 cloth. Anna Baranchuk Anna Baranchuk Georgia State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (2): 374–378. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0374 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Anna Baranchuk; Lacan in Public: Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2014; 17 (2): 374–378. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0374 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2014 Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis. By Jenny Rice. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012; pp. x + 230. $25.95 paper. Whitney Gent Whitney Gent University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (2): 358–361. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0358 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Whitney Gent; Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2014; 17 (2): 358–361. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0358 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2014 Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right. By J. Brooks Flippen. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011; pp. 350. $69.95 cloth; $26.95 paper. Eric C. Miller Eric C. Miller Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (1): 193–195. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.1.0193 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eric C. Miller; Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2014; 17 (1): 193–195. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.1.0193 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This essay analyzes three pedagogical manuals on publicity design published by the National Committee of Patriotic Societies (NCPS) during the First World War. The NCPS represented dozens of nationalistic organizations dedicated to the mission of preparedness. This essay argues that in its publicity guidebooks, the NCPS suggested that propaganda designed with a Republican aesthetic could wed the working class to the war effort. Such advice was predicated on the psychological notion that affective experiences conditioned audiences for further persuasive appeals. Examination of these manuals thus highlights the importance of psychological theories of affect to the aesthetics of propaganda.

Book Review| March 01 2014 Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility. Edited by Nancy M. P. King and Michael J. Hyde. New York: Routledge, 2012; pp. xv + 179. $130.00 cloth. Stuart J. Murray Stuart J. Murray Carleton University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (1): 186–189. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.1.0186 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stuart J. Murray; Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2014; 17 (1): 186–189. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.1.0186 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract The years following the Mexican Revolution (1910–1917) witnessed energetic debate at all levels of Mexican society concerning the future of the nation. Utilizing the notion of “political fictions,” in this article I claim that a tension between two competing political fictions was laid bare and can usefully be examined through analysis of manifestos from this period. Building upon previous scholarship on this genre, I show how manifestos arose from institutional crisis and served as both the voice of the oppressed and as the bully pulpit of political elites in Mexico. I conclude by analyzing an artistic manifesto, the Comprimido Estridentista (1921), which is an early attempt to synthesize these two political fictions. Foreshadowing one of the central concerns of the postrevolutionary state, this unusual text attempts to institutionalize the promises of the Mexican Revolution.

Abstract Pirates are commonly referred to as hostis humani generis, the enemy of all. This essay explores the contours of this figuration through an analysis of early nineteenth century American legal and political texts concerning piracy. I argue that pirate rhetorics in this period are part of a constitutive rhetoric of sovereignty, principally identified with Emerich de Vattel’s famous definition of sovereignty in The Law of Nations. Through an analysis of the textual milieu surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1820 decision in United States v. Smith, I show that the pirate is figured as an anti-sovereign, which allows for the consolidation of an otherwise differential system of international relations characterized by liberal, self-interested, sovereign nations. In becoming hostis humani generis, the pirate enters into an antagonistic relationship with the sovereign that provides the ontological ground for the theory of sovereignty characteristic of modern thought in international law. Supplementing Charland’s theory of constitutive rhetoric with Laclau and Mouffe’s work on antagonisms in social relations, I argue that focusing on negative identification, which is an essential component of any constitutive rhetoric, opens up unique avenues for analysis that may otherwise be obscured by attending solely to the positive dimensions of a rhetoric.

William Keith, Christian Lundberg, and James M. Farrell have thoughtfully reviewedmy effort to explicate howmodern public speaking came to be conceptualized on the basis of antecedent text genres.My argumentwas that a newunderstanding of oral rhetoric emerged between 1890 and 1930 as authors experimentally and variously appropriated concepts and frameworks from elocution (in its several iterations), from oratorical composition (as given in new-rhetoric treatises, advanced rhetorics, and composition books), and from varietal popular or professional works (of extemporaneous speaking, debating, and audienceadapted preaching). More broadly, my “Inventing Public Speaking” represents an effort to rebalance the larger history of rhetoric, 1730–1930, along the lines of orality in the context of a post-1980 emphasis upon writingcentered schoolbooks and pedagogies. Here my three colleagues usefully expand this principle of disciplinary balance by showing how the text-based conceptualizing of rhetoric may be enhanced, in Farrell’s telling, by deeper understandings of the professional and institutional roots of the modern communication discipline and, from Keith’s and Lundberg’s perspective, by historically sensitive refinements of pedagogy to promote speechmaking that is communicative, communitarian, and deliberative. But before exploring intersections betweenmy article and the commentaries of Farrell, Keith, and Lundberg, I wish to expand a bit on what I see as the Big Problem in

Book Review| March 01 2014 Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies. Edited by Karma R. Chávez and Cindy L. Griffin. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012; pp. xxiii + 217. $80.00 cloth; $29.95 paper. Valerie N. Wieskamp Valerie N. Wieskamp Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (1): 183–186. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.1.0183 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 Valerie N. Wieskamp; Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2014; 17 (1): 183–186. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.1.0183 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2014 Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion. By Jeanne Fahnestock. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011; pp. 464. $99.00 cloth; $39.95 paper. Andrew C. Hansen Andrew C. Hansen Trinity University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (1): 189–193. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.1.0189 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew C. Hansen; Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2014; 17 (1): 189–193. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.1.0189 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. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

In the mid-1980s, when I was in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Michael Leff organized a series of informal summer reading groups for rhetoric graduate students. During one of those summers, at Leff’s suggestion, the groupmet weekly to enjoy some Leinekugel’s beer and discuss the founding documents of our discipline—the key articles published in the Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking from 1915 to 1923. Leff always emphasized the importance of understanding the institutional and pedagogical history of the communication field, and the exercise of reading those founding documents was, for me, formative. Thus, I appreciate enormously Professor Sproule’s effort to discover and illuminate a vital chapter in the “communication discipline’s own creation story.” His essay explores the multifaceted origins of the “quintessential modern speech book” that emerged in the early twentieth century from an eclectic theoretical and pedagogical ancestry stretching back over the previous two centuries. To Professor Sproule, the evolution of the modern public speaking text is revealing of a lively disciplinary fermentation and stands as the chief manifestation of both a new paradigm of speech pedagogy, and of a “growing confidence” in the youthful speech discipline. In the texts that emerged from this evolution, and especially in JamesWinans’s “widely influential” Public Speaking (1915), Sproule witnesses the materialization of the discipline’s rejection of its elocutionary heritage and its embrace of a mode of public address “that was plain, practical, ideafocused, extemporaneous, conversationally direct, audience-adapted, outline-prepared, and library-researched.”

Abstract This essay examines the 1959 controversy over whether and how to commemorate the centennial of abolitionist John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. I argue that the controversy arose because commemorating Brown’s raid challenged prominent U.S. public memories of the Civil War that excluded slavery and the continued existence of white supremacy. I analyze the discursive fields into which the centennial commemoration entered: the heroic, patriotic, and unifying narratives of the war championed by the national organizations tasked with commemorating the Civil War centennial, and discourses of the civil rights movement and the black press that demanded a repudiation of white supremacy and the recognition of African Americans as equal citizens. Ultimately, I contend that the rhetoric that surrounded the Harpers Ferry raid commemoration sheds light on how the civil rights movement not only challenged white supremacy in its conservative form, but also pushed against the moderate and liberal manifestations of white supremacy that were embedded in the commemoration of the Harpers Ferry raid.