AbstractIn this essay, we analyze the public communication debacle before the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake that led to the infamous trial of the “L’Aquila Seven.” Examining the trial transcripts to extract norms regarding the proper role of scientists in society, we conclude that the first verdict interpellated the figure of the responsible scientist citizen who is expected to perform rhetorical citizenship when communicating with a lay public, while the second assumed a distinction between public and technical spheres that absolves scientists from responsibility to their fellow citizens and reduces their role to performance of an expertise divorced from rhetoric. Tracing the civic outcomes of these conflicting norms, we identify three missed opportunities during the prequake discourse in which the scientists failed to correct statements that they, and only they, knew to be flawed. To prevent future communicative debacles that arise from a dangerous separation of scientists and laypeople, we argue that scientists need to come to see themselves as scientist citizens, experts who take on the civic responsibility of clearly communicating their knowledge to their fellow citizens when such sharing is necessary to the public good.

AbstractPresidential libraries and museums are important sites for understanding the rhetorical construction of presidential legacies in the United States. The newest of these institutions is the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas. The museum assists in the rhetorical redemption of a historically maligned presidency, anchoring President Bush’s legacy in the virtues of masculine, authoritative leadership. This is aided in particular by a noteworthy focus on baseball as a mythic expression of American exceptionalism, most dramatically featured in a 2015 temporary exhibit called Baseball: America’s Presidents, America’s Pastime. Far from being simply a colorful metaphor for national identity, baseball celebrates Bush’s moral authority and links him to the legacy of previous presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt. In short, the exhibit makes clear that one cannot understand the Bush presidency without baseball.

AbstractIn the rhetoric of contemporary federal education reform, public school teachers are often blamed for and championed as solutions to educational problems. Representations of teachers as heroic and blameworthy are an integral component of a neoliberal rationality apparent in education reform since the publication of the Reagan administration’s A Nation at Risk, as they allow political actors to promote individual solutions to systemic issues that affect student achievement. After briefly exploring the rhetoric of reform, this essay focuses on the ways teachers negotiate the discourses that implicate their profession. To do so, I analyze a corpus of 18 open letters written and published online by current and former public school teachers in protest of policy and/or specific political actors. I argue that authors of these open letters leverage their professional identities to protest and articulate alternatives to seemingly pervasive neoliberal logics inherent in contemporary education reform. In turn, I maintain that analyzing vernacular exchanges, such as teachers’ protest discourse, is imperative to understanding the material consequences of education policy as well as the full discursive space of policymaking.

Book Review| December 01 2018 Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform. By Mark Hlavacik. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2016; pp. 207. $60.00 cloth; $30.00 paper. Stephen Schneider Stephen Schneider University of Louisville Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (4): 717–720. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0717 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 Stephen Schneider; Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 717–720. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0717 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| December 01 2018 Memories of Robert Newman: Teacher, Scholar, Mentor Marilyn J. Young Marilyn J. Young Marilyn J. Young is the Wayne C. Minnick Professor of Communication emerita at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (4): 707–716. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0707 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 Marilyn J. Young; Memories of Robert Newman: Teacher, Scholar, Mentor. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 707–716. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0707 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract Gridlock plagues modern policy deliberations in Congress. By analyzing the 2013 Senate debate over the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, this essay shows how distrust operates as a rhetorical stance that forecloses compromise and justifies corrosive legislative stalemates. Despite agreeing on most policy specifics, congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle constructed subversive, untrustworthy policy actors to legitimate their refusal to compromise on a final bill. Republicans denounced the Obama administration as flouters of immigration laws and uninterested in border security, while Democrats detailed a Republican “ploy” to cheat millions of undocumented immigrants out of a pathway to citizenship. These rhetorics of distrust created irreconcilable visions for how to implement immigration reform. The essay concludes by proposing that more dialogic forums among representatives and a politically realist outlook could help ameliorate rhetorics of distrust.

Book Review| December 01 2018 Propaganda Propaganda. Edited by Paul Baines and Nicholas O’Shaughnessy. 4 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Ltd., 2013; pp. 1,448. $1,190 cloth. Allison Niebaur; Allison Niebaur Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Benjamin Firgens Benjamin Firgens Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (4): 740–743. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0740 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 Allison Niebaur, Benjamin Firgens; Propaganda. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 740–743. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0740 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| December 01 2018 Rational Model for Analyzing U.S. Foreign Policy Advocates and Decision Makers: The Newman Legacy Carol Winkler Carol Winkler Carol Winkler is Professor of Communication Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (4): 683–694. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0683 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 Carol Winkler; Rational Model for Analyzing U.S. Foreign Policy Advocates and Decision Makers: The Newman Legacy. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 683–694. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0683 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2018 Shades of Ṣulḥ: The Rhetoric of Arab-Islamic Reconciliation Shades of Ṣulḥ: The Rhetoric of Arab-Islamic Reconciliation. By Rasha Diab. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016; pp. xi + 248. $26.95 paper. Arabella Lyon Arabella Lyon University at Buffalo, SUNY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (4): 737–739. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0737 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 Arabella Lyon; Shades of Ṣulḥ: The Rhetoric of Arab-Islamic Reconciliation. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 737–739. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0737 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| December 01 2018 Truth in Politics: Newman and Newman’s Evidence Michael Weiler Michael Weiler Michael Weiler is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (4): 695–706. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0695 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 Michael Weiler; Truth in Politics: Newman and Newman’s Evidence. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 695–706. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0695 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2018 King Returns to Washington King Returns to Washington. By Jefferson Walker. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016; pp. viii + 95. $64.99 cloth. Jennifer Biedendorf Jennifer Biedendorf California State University, Stanislaus Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (4): 725–728. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0725 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 Jennifer Biedendorf; King Returns to Washington. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 725–728. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0725 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This essay examines the transvaginal ultrasound (TVU) debate that was ignited in the spring of 2012 by a Virginia law mandating the procedure as a prerequisite for first-trimester abortions. This debate represents a recent intensification of historical arguments grounded in how the abortion debate intersects with medical practice. By following the debate as it unfolded on pro-choice and pro-life blogs, this analysis uncovers three overarching topoi in the discourse mirrored on both sides: the medical necessity (or lack thereof) of the procedure; the importance of informed consent; and comparisons to rape. Using Foucault’s concept of the medical gaze, this essay argues that across all three topoi, both pro-choice and pro-life activists’ rhetoric relied heavily upon implicit assumptions of the superiority and necessity of medical science. The TVU debate demonstrates an argumentation strategy that both strips the issue of its political, legal, moral, and personal contexts and rhetorically positions pro-choice groups disadvantageously by obfuscating any discussion of women’s rights.

Book Review| December 01 2018 Memories of Lincoln and the Splintering of American Political Thought Memories of Lincoln and the Splintering of American Political Thought. By Shawn J. Parry-Giles and David S. Kaufer. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017; pp. xii + 220. $29.95 paper. Barry Schwartz Barry Schwartz University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (4): 729–732. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0729 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 Barry Schwartz; Memories of Lincoln and the Splintering of American Political Thought. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 729–732. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0729 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

AbstractIn March 1703, hundreds of New England sailors returned home after years of slavery in the Barbary States. In response, Cotton Mather authored and circulated a sermon titled The Glory of Goodness. This text, ostensibly given in celebration of the captives’ return, gave voice to an exceptionalist understanding of Puritan identity premised on foreign—notably Muslim—others. It therefore informs our understanding of early eighteenth-century colonial depictions of Islam, while bearing insight for discourses surrounding Puritan exceptionalism, the rhetorical construction of race, and the articulation of religious identity in New England following the Glorious Revolution.

Book Review| December 01 2018 Emperors and Bishops in Late Roman Invective Emperors and Bishops in Late Roman Invective. By Richard Flower. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013; pp. x + 284. $99.00 cloth. Jordan Loveridge Jordan Loveridge Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (4): 747–749. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0747 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 Jordan Loveridge; Emperors and Bishops in Late Roman Invective. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 747–749. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0747 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2018 The Language of the Third Reich: LTI, Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist’s Notebook The Language of the Third Reich: LTI, Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist’s Notebook. By Victor Klemperer. Translated by Martin Brady. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013; pp. 320. $19.95 paper. Jerry Blitefield Jerry Blitefield University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (4): 744–746. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0744 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 Jerry Blitefield; The Language of the Third Reich: LTI, Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist’s Notebook. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 744–746. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0744 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2018 Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method. Edited by Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, and Robert Glenn Howard. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016; pp. viii + 231. $34.95 paper. Heather Ashley Hayes Heather Ashley Hayes Whitman College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (4): 733–736. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0733 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 Heather Ashley Hayes; Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 733–736. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0733 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2018 Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse. Edited By Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016; pp. ix + 370. $95.00 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 (2018) 21 (4): 721–724. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0721 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; Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 721–724. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0721 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| December 01 2018 Newman’s Isocratic Protrepticus Gordon R. Mitchell Gordon R. Mitchell Gordon R. Mitchell is Associate Professor of Communication and Associate Professor of Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (4): 673–682. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0673 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 Gordon R. Mitchell; Newman’s Isocratic Protrepticus. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 673–682. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0673 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract A significant ideological shift has occurred in jurisprudential understanding of the social contract. Reading a landmark opinion from Justice Rehnquist—Paul v. Davis (1976)—as a pivot point for this shift, I identify a specific form of parsimonious judgment that has shaped the contemporary relationship between the individual and the state. Three markers of this form of judgment emerge from the opinion: (1) a claim about risks to state bureaucracy as a significant constitutional interest; (2) a slippery slope argument about institutional competence to discipline linguistic ambiguity; and (3) an interpretive practice that resolves this anxiety by binding precedent around a clear principle. This form of judgment has both ideological and normative significance. The opinion justifies a world of risk management that elevates economic liberty claims to exalted status. It disavows traditional markers of classical prudence, such as reverence for tradition, inflection of personal style as moral character, and orientation toward practical aspects of particular cases. Justifying its authority by performing its own rationale, Rehnquist’s opinion is significant for understanding how strategic invention can alter a democratic culture’s understanding of judgment, including its ethical dimensions.

Book Review| September 01 2018 Points of Difference in the Study of More-than-Human Rhetorical Ontologies How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human. By Eduardo Kohn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013; pp. viii + 267. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics. Edited by Diana Coole and Samantha Frost. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010; pp. i + 336. $104.95 cloth; $27.95 paper.Rhetoric, through Everyday Things. Edited by Scot Barnett and Casey Boyle. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016; pp. ix + 270. $29.95 paper.Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition. Edited by Paul Lynch and Nathaniel Rivers. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015; pp. vii + 345. $45.00 paper. Joshua P. Ewalt Joshua P. Ewalt Joshua P. Ewalt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (3): 523–538. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0523 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Joshua P. Ewalt; Points of Difference in the Study of More-than-Human Rhetorical Ontologies. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2018; 21 (3): 523–538. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0523 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| September 01 2018 The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity, Community, Otherness The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity, Community, Otherness. Edited by E. Johanna Hartelius. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 2015; pp. vii + 302. $94.95 cloth; 29.95 paper. Jennifer J. Asenas; Jennifer J. Asenas California State University, Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin A. Johnson Kevin A. Johnson California State University, Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (3): 547–550. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0547 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer J. Asenas, Kevin A. Johnson; The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity, Community, Otherness. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2018; 21 (3): 547–550. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0547 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| September 01 2018 The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation. By John Kyle Day. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014; pp. 241. $60.00 cloth; $30.00 paper. Davis W. Houck Davis W. Houck Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (3): 563–566. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0563 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Davis W. Houck; The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2018; 21 (3): 563–566. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0563 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| September 01 2018 The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship. By Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016; pp. xi + 344. $35.00 cloth. Laurie E. Gries Laurie E. Gries University of Colorado, Boulder Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (3): 539–542. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0539 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Laurie E. Gries; The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2018; 21 (3): 539–542. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0539 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| September 01 2018 Tongue of Fire: Emma Goldman, Public Womanhood, and the Sex Question Tongue of Fire: Emma Goldman, Public Womanhood, and the Sex Question. By Donna M. Kowal. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016; pp. v + 201. $75.00 cloth; $22.95 paper. Kate Zittlow Rogness Kate Zittlow Rogness Hamline University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (3): 555–558. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0555 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kate Zittlow Rogness; Tongue of Fire: Emma Goldman, Public Womanhood, and the Sex Question. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2018; 21 (3): 555–558. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0555 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| September 01 2018 Secret Habits: Catholic Literacy Education for Women in the Early Nineteenth Century Secret Habits: Catholic Literacy Education for Women in the Early Nineteenth Century. By Carol Mattingly. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016; pp. xx + 272. $40.00 paper; $40.00 e-book. Sara A. Mehltretter Drury Sara A. Mehltretter Drury Wabash College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (3): 559–562. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0559 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sara A. Mehltretter Drury; Secret Habits: Catholic Literacy Education for Women in the Early Nineteenth Century. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2018; 21 (3): 559–562. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0559 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract In 1937, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal hung on the whims of a deeply divided Supreme Court. His ninth fireside chat argued for legislation that would grant FDR enough new justices to shift the Court in favor of the New Deal. Facing entrenched opposition to his unpopular plan, Roosevelt presented the president as a constitutional authority who must act in response to the crisis of the Great Depression to drive the three-horse team of government toward recovery. Throughout the text, Roosevelt worked to create a sense of urgency and asked the nation to see this moment as the time for decisive action. This study examines the flow of kairos in the speech, tracing timeliness in Roosevelt’s argument for swift action targeting the Court to safeguard economic recovery. Although Roosevelt did not expand the Court, his language lives on as a model for subsequent executives and part of our public constitutional discourse.

Book Review| September 01 2018 Representing Ebola: Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013–2015 West African Ebola Outbreak Representing Ebola: Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013–2015 West African Ebola Outbreak. By Marouf A. Hasian Jr. Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickson University Press, 2016; pp. v + 251. $85.00 cloth. Skye de Saint Felix Skye de Saint Felix University of Arkansas–Fayetteville Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (3): 551–554. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0551 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Skye de Saint Felix; Representing Ebola: Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013–2015 West African Ebola Outbreak. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2018; 21 (3): 551–554. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0551 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This essay situates Abraham Lincoln’s Second Annual Message within the context of previous discourse on African colonization to illuminate the significance of the text as public policy rhetoric. I argue that Lincoln’s proposal for compensated emancipation and colonization in the Second Annual Message was the apotheosis of colonization advocacy. Lincoln’s argumentation navigated the complicated context to make a final, but failed, case for a compromise between North and South before the Final Emancipation Proclamation took effect.

AbstractIn 2010, the United Farm Workers (UFW) launched a campaign titled “Take Our Jobs!” Explicitly directed at “Americans,” the campaign promised UFW training to applicants for jobs in the nation’s fields. With references to (un)documented immigrants within the nation, the campaign located debates on immigration within the nation, not at the border. I argue that the campaign relied upon irony and visibility politics, generating a logic of absurd reality that allowed audiences to differentiate themselves from (un)documented immigrants in ways that both reinscribe the racial figure of the deportable Mexican and see that figure, at least momentarily, in a humane way.

Book Review| September 01 2018 Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars. By Heather Ashley Hayes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016; pp. xv + 207. $99.00 e-book; $129.00 cloth. Timothy Barney Timothy Barney University of Richmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (3): 543–546. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0543 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy Barney; Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2018; 21 (3): 543–546. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0543 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2018 The Politics of Pain Medicine: A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry The Politics of Pain Medicine: A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry. By S. Scott Graham. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015; pp 256. $50.00 cloth; $10–$50 e-book. Lynda Walsh Lynda Walsh University of Nevada, Reno Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (2): 368–371. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0368 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lynda Walsh; The Politics of Pain Medicine: A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2018; 21 (2): 368–371. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0368 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2018 Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship. By Robert E. Terrill. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015; pp. 224. $39.99 cloth; $38.99 e-book. David A. Frank David A. Frank University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (2): 374–377. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0374 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David A. Frank; Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2018; 21 (2): 374–377. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0374 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2018 War Comics Comics and Conflict: Patriotism and Propaganda from WWII through Operation Iraqi Freedom. By Cord A. Scott. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2014; pp. 224. $49.95 cloth.The Comic Art of War: A Critical Study of Military Cartoons, 1805–2014, with a Guide to Artists. By Christina M. Knopf. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015; pp. 252. $39.95 paper.Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form. By Hillary L. Chute. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016; pp. 376. $35 cloth. Christopher J. Gilbert Christopher J. Gilbert Christopher J. Gilbert is Assistant Professor of English at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (2): 343–358. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0343 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher J. Gilbert; War Comics. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2018; 21 (2): 343–358. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0343 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: REVIEW ESSAY You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract During the World War II era, a time of civilizational uncertainty, globalism emerged as a rhetorical alternative both to the isolationism predominant before the war and to the Cold War bipolarity that would replace it. A primary advocate for globalism was Wendell Willkie, the failed 1940 Republican presidential candidate who went on to cooperate with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, serving as his former rival’s proxy and personal representative in two famous overseas trips. While scholarship in rhetorical studies has accounted for the Roosevelt presidency and other forces shaping public discourse during the war and early Cold War, it has generally overlooked the importance of Willkie’s globalism in providing a bipartisan vocabulary with which Americans could describe a postwar peace sustained by interpersonal economics of free trade, global human rights, and burgeoning domestic civil rights. Using Willkie’s 1943 book One World as well as materials from his archives at Indiana University, this essay reads a popular figure and his influential ideas back into our historical narrative, demonstrating how he established what Kenneth Burke termed identification through the use of the related rhetorical strategies of proximity, presence, and ethos, inviting ordinary Americans to imagine a globally interdependent postwar peace.

Book Review| June 01 2018 Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation, and the 1908 Governor's Conference Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation, and the 1908 Governor's Conference. By Leroy G. Dorsey. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016; pp. ix +135. $29.95 paper. Samuel Perry Samuel Perry Baylor University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (2): 380–383. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0380 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Samuel Perry; Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation, and the 1908 Governor's Conference. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2018; 21 (2): 380–383. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0380 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2018 Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression. By Cara A. Finnegan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015; pp. 256. $50.00 cloth. Ekaterina V. Haskins Ekaterina V. Haskins Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (2): 359–362. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0359 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ekaterina V. Haskins; Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2018; 21 (2): 359–362. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0359 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: BOOK REVIEW You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2018 Democracy, Deliberation, and Education Democracy, Deliberation, and Education. By Robert Asen. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015; pp. ix + 233. $34.95 paper. Mark Hlavacik Mark Hlavacik University of North Texas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (2): 365–368. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0365 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mark Hlavacik; Democracy, Deliberation, and Education. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2018; 21 (2): 365–368. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0365 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2018 The Rhetoric of Plato's Republic: Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of Persuasion The Rhetoric of Plato's Republic: Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of Persuasion. By James L. Kastely. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015; pp. xvii + 260. $35.00 cloth. John J. Jasso John J. Jasso Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (2): 383–386. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0383 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John J. Jasso; The Rhetoric of Plato's Republic: Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of Persuasion. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2018; 21 (2): 383–386. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0383 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract In 1951, the Bowman Gum company released a collectible card set, sold with bubblegum, entitled The Children’s Crusade Against Communism: Fight the Red Menace. As a consumer item, the cards drew boys into a burgeoning form of American citizenship, but their overtly military tone also links this citizenship to ideas about national security. The narrative of the cards broadly reflects the tenets of the Truman Doctrine: that it is the duty of the United States to uphold global freedom; that communism must be contained; and that national security depends on nuclear power, a strong military, and civilian preparedness to mobilize in defense of peace. The molding of such political content in the cards to appeal to a young audience allows us to understand how such an audience was conceived of in ideological terms. A picture can be conjured of how the audience was imagined to look, what kinds of cues were deemed to be appropriate to such an audience, and how the audience was expected to respond to those cues. An analysis of the cards as they operated within the rhetorical and visual culture of the period reveals that they excluded certain groups from the narrative of American history and, thereby, certain children from the goal of becoming ideal American future citizens, citizens bearing an identity defined by a militarism and a nationalist exceptionalism predicated on pious certitude and righteous superiority.

Abstract In 1909, a group of mountaineers climbed Mount Rainier during the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition and placed a “Votes for Women” pennant at the mountain summit. I argue that their ascent of Mount Rainier exploited meanings of mountaineering and the wilderness for woman suffrage: mountaineering as a symbol of imperial power, the mountain wilderness as the new mythic frontier, and walking in the western wilderness as an enactment of freedom. The imperialist meaning of mountaineering constituted woman suffragists as powerful, victorious, and capable of winning their upcoming suffrage campaign. Climbing the new frontier demonstrated that the women were physically strong enough to participate in turn-of-the-century politics and invoked the meritocratic logic of the frontier myth that suggested these women had earned their right to vote through their labor on the mountain. Walking in the western wilderness performed the climbers’ freedom to walk, think, and vote for themselves and to resist society’s gendered restrictions. Their climb invoked the ideologies of imperialism, the frontier myth, and freedom to appeal to the citizens of the Pacific Northwest for voting rights and to gain more publicity for their cause, yet it simultaneously had a rhetorical impact on the climbers themselves. By appropriating the rhetorics of mountaineering and the wilderness, they motivated and increased the morale of suffragists in the midst of a struggling movement and positioned their male companions as suffrage advocates.

Book Review| June 01 2018 The Ides of War: George Washington and the Newburgh Crisis The Ides of War: George Washington and the Newburgh Crisis. By Stephen Howard Browne. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016; pp. vii + 138. $44.99 cloth. Allison M. Prasch Allison M. Prasch Colorado State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (2): 377–380. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0377 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Allison M. Prasch; The Ides of War: George Washington and the Newburgh Crisis. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2018; 21 (2): 377–380. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0377 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract Treatises on rhetoric since antiquity have illustrated how to amplify passages but give scant attention to strategies for when or why. Dealing mostly with isolated passages, they ignore the effect of amplification on amplitude, the proportions of units that give a text its overall shape. This article considers the relationship between length and importance, sets criteria for a method of mapping amplitude, and applies the method to the Gettysburg addresses of Abraham Lincoln and Edward Everett. Though their shapes differ, each address balances crucial sections against each other. In Lincoln’s case, a more symmetrical shape emerged by accident as he delivered the speech. Then, when editing the official version, he decided to preserve the new shape. Everett’s address is shown to have better proportions than critics assume. Mapping amplitude sheds light on authors’ strategies for dealing with their kairos.

Book Review| June 01 2018 Political Rhetoric Political Rhetoric. By Mary E. Stuckey. The Presidential Briefings Series. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2015; pp. xxxiii + 93. $79.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury Wabash College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (2): 371–374. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0371 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury; Political Rhetoric. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2018; 21 (2): 371–374. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.2.0371 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2018 The New Science of Communication: Reconsidering McLuhan’s Message for Our Modern Moment The New Science of Communication: Reconsidering McLuhan’s Message for Our Modern Moment. By Anthony M. Wachs. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2015; pp. 1–222. $25.00 Paper. Corey Anton Corey Anton Grand Valley State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (1): 193–195. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.1.0193 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Corey Anton; The New Science of Communication: Reconsidering McLuhan’s Message for Our Modern Moment. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2018; 21 (1): 193–195. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.1.0193 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. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: BOOK REVIEW You do not currently have access to this content.