Book Review| December 01 2017 Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment. By Michael Warren Tumolo. Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015; pp. viii + 97. $60.00 cloth. Bradley A. Serber Bradley A. Serber Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (4): 754–756. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0754 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bradley A. Serber; Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2017; 20 (4): 754–756. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0754 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2017 Performing Native Rhetorics of Resistance and Identity American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment. By Jason Edward Black. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015; pp. 228. $65.00 hardback.The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination. By Mark Rifkin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012; pp. 352. $25.00 paperback.Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations. By Mishuana Goeman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013; pp. 256. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paperback.Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603–1832. Edited by David Bellin Joshua and Laura L. Mielke. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011; pp. 344. $35.00 paperback. Christy-Dale L. Sims Christy-Dale L. Sims Christy-Dale L. Sims was a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in the Communication Studies Department of the University of Denver at the time of writing. She can be reached at Christy-Dale.Sims@DU.edu. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (4): 731–750. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0731 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christy-Dale L. Sims; Performing Native Rhetorics of Resistance and Identity. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2017; 20 (4): 731–750. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0731 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| December 01 2017 Obama, Trump, and Reflections on the Rhetoric of Political Change Denise M. Bostdorff Denise M. Bostdorff Denise M. Bostdorff is Professor of Communication at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (4): 695–706. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0695 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Denise M. Bostdorff; Obama, Trump, and Reflections on the Rhetoric of Political Change. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2017; 20 (4): 695–706. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0695 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: ARTICLES You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2017 The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation. By Darrel Wanzer-Serrano. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2015; pp. xiv + 229. $84.50 cloth; $29.95 paper; $29.95 ebook. J. David Cisneros J. David Cisneros University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (4): 756–760. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0756 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J. David Cisneros; The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2017; 20 (4): 756–760. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0756 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| December 01 2017 Trump's Unwitting Prophecy Robert L. Ivie Robert L. Ivie Robert L. Ivie is Professor Emeritus of English (Rhetoric) and American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (4): 707–718. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0707 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert L. Ivie; Trump's Unwitting Prophecy. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2017; 20 (4): 707–718. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0707 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract Conventional wisdom states that leftover frustrations from World War I necessitated an incremental rhetorical strategy for interventionists in the buildup to World War II. However, such considerations often miss another factor that bolstered American isolationism: anti-Semitism. In the interwar period, America saw a sharp uptick in anti-Semitic organizations that preached a vehement isolationist message. Because of this environment, interventionist rhetors, particularly Jewish rhetors, were denied access to traditional rhetorical resources. In response, one group turned to one of the few outlets available: comic books. Through allegory, a rhetorical form that combines an entertaining surface narrative with a strong but hidden ideological argument, these rhetors were able to reach broad audiences with interventionist messages from behind the veil of comic book adventures. This essay examines the ways in which one of those comic book characters, Captain America, was purposefully constructed to be an allegorical argument for intervention. Through a careful interplay of visuals and narrative themes, his creators made a compelling case for America’s involvement in the war.

Other| December 01 2017 American Elections and the Rhetoric of Political Change: Hyperbole, Anger, and Hope in U.S. Politics Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey is Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State University in University Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (4): 667–694. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0667 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary E. Stuckey; American Elections and the Rhetoric of Political Change: Hyperbole, Anger, and Hope in U.S. Politics. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2017; 20 (4): 667–694. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0667 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Other| September 01 2017 Dynasties and Democracy Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey is Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State University, University Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 539–544. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0539 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary E. Stuckey; Dynasties and Democracy. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2017; 20 (3): 539–544. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0539 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Other| September 01 2017 Racial Presidentialities: Narratives of Latinxs in the 2016 Campaign J. David Cisneros J. David Cisneros J. David Cisneros is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 511–524. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0511 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J. David Cisneros; Racial Presidentialities: Narratives of Latinxs in the 2016 Campaign. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2017; 20 (3): 511–524. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0511 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Forum: The 2016 Presidential Primary: Rhetoric, Identity, and Presidentiality in the Post-Obama Era You do not currently have access to this content.

Other| September 01 2017 Presidential Pioneer or Campaign Queen?: Hillary Clinton and the First-Timer/Frontrunner Double Bind Karrin Vasby Anderson Karrin Vasby Anderson Karrin Vasby Anderson is Professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 525–538. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0525 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Karrin Vasby Anderson; Presidential Pioneer or Campaign Queen?: Hillary Clinton and the First-Timer/Frontrunner Double Bind. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2017; 20 (3): 525–538. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0525 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract In this project, I argue that J. Edgar Hoover’s style of political realism should be studied by critics because it long preceded that of President Harry S. Truman. The style belonged to a stockpile of anti-Communist imagery that helped to shape how the Truman Doctrine speech was drafted and how audiences interpreted its meanings in more local domestic politics. When Truman finally announced that the Soviet Union had challenged international protocol, I argue that he confirmed the vision that his Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director and other detractors had developed throughout the New Deal to discredit reformers who challenged issues of race, labor, and police technique. In this way, anti-Communist containment rhetoric limited the president’s ability to control the domestic security and economic agendas. The stockpile of anti-Communist discourse belonged to, I also argue, a relative of political realism—literary realism and its spinoff, literary naturalism. My final argument is that the FBI director refurbished key tropes in the stockpile, which helped Truman’s congressional opponents invoke Hoover’s authority within the executive branch and thereby displace the president’s credibility as commander in chief. Combined, Hoover and his allies in Congress and elsewhere used rhetorical realism to communicate a deterministic philosophy about human nature through a diffuse mythic narrative, coordinated between Congress, Hollywood, the press, and official FBI discourse.

Book Review| September 01 2017 Rhetoric and the Gift: Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Contemporary Communication Rhetoric and the Gift: Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Contemporary Communication. By Mari Lee Mifsud. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2016; pp. xi + 186. $25.00 paper. Michele Kennerly Michele Kennerly Penn State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 557–560. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0557 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michele Kennerly; Rhetoric and the Gift: Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Contemporary Communication. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2017; 20 (3): 557–560. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0557 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| September 01 2017 Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric: The Texture of Political Action Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric: The Texture of Political Action. by Robert Hariman and Ralph Cintron. New York: Berghahn, 2015; pp. 274. $95.00 paper. José G. Izaguirre, III José G. Izaguirre, III University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 566–569. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0566 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation José G. Izaguirre; Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric: The Texture of Political Action. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2017; 20 (3): 566–569. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0566 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This article situates the entrenchment of an American commitment to home ownership at a critical moment in U.S. history—the passage of the National Housing Act of 1934 (NHA). An examination of the introduction, deliberation, and promotion of the legislation reveals how policymakers concretized the value and civic import of residential property. The analysis shows how policymakers, housing advocates, and NHA skeptics collectively framed borrowing for home ownership to be a progressive, secure, and patriotic investment. The NHA discourse illustrates the power of policy rhetoric to define American experiences and prescribe American values.

Other| September 01 2017 No Joke: Silent Jesters and Comedic Refusals Jonathan P. Rossing Jonathan P. Rossing Jonathan P. Rossing is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Chair at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 545–556. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0545 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan P. Rossing; No Joke: Silent Jesters and Comedic Refusals. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2017; 20 (3): 545–556. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0545 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Forum: The 2016 Presidential Primary: Rhetoric, Identity, and Presidentiality in the Post-Obama Era You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| September 01 2017 The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes. By Han Baltussen and Peter J. Davis. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 2015; pp. vi + 329. $79.95/£52.00 cloth; $79.95/£52.00 ebook. Trevor C. Meyer Trevor C. Meyer University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 560–563. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0560 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Trevor C. Meyer; The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2017; 20 (3): 560–563. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0560 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| September 01 2017 The Rhetorical Invention of Man: A History of Distinguishing Humans from Other Animals The Rhetorical Invention of Man: A History of Distinguishing Humans from Other Animals. By Greg Goodale. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015, pp. vii + 181. $80.00 cloth; $79.99 e-book. Mary Trachsel Mary Trachsel University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 563–566. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0563 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Trachsel; The Rhetorical Invention of Man: A History of Distinguishing Humans from Other Animals. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2017; 20 (3): 563–566. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0563 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2017 Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship. Edited by Christian Kock and Lisa Villadsen. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014; pp. 5 + 349. $54.50 paper. Sara R. Kitsch Sara R. Kitsch Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (2): 363–368. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0363 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sara R. Kitsch; Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2017; 20 (2): 363–368. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0363 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2017 Signs of Pathology: U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s–1960s Signs of Pathology: U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s–1960s. By Nathan Stormer. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014; pp. 256. $69.95 cloth. S. Scott Graham S. Scott Graham University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (2): 372–380. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0372 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation S. Scott Graham; Signs of Pathology: U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s–1960s. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2017; 20 (2): 372–380. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0372 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2017 Rhetoric in American Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Science Rhetoric in American Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Science. By Risa Applegarth. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014; pp. x + 267. $27.95 paper. Ann George Ann George Texas Christian University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (2): 376–384. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0376 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ann George; Rhetoric in American Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Science. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2017; 20 (2): 376–384. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0376 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2017 Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece. By Nathan Crick. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015; pp. ix + 260. $59.95 cloth. Kristine Bruss Kristine Bruss Independent Scholar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (2): 360–364. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0360 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kristine Bruss; Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2017; 20 (2): 360–364. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0360 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract In 1961, the American Medical Association (AMA) funded a persuasive campaign called Operation Coffeecup. The campaign, which was designed to defeat Medicare, featured a speech by a young Ronald Reagan outlining the dangers of “socialized medicine.” The speech was recorded on a long-play record and distributed to the Women’s Auxiliary of the AMA, a group primarily composed of the wives of doctors who were instructed to write seemingly spontaneous letters to Congress detailing their opposition to the program. This essay investigates Operation Coffeecup mainly through a rhetorical analysis of Reagan’s speech. I argue that “socialized medicine” drew upon a problematic articulation of American culture that privileges the individual at the expense of the larger community. I conclude by discussing the thread of individualism that has persisted in the United States from the pre-Depression era mythos of rugged individualism to neoliberal discourses that shape debates about health policy today.

Abstract Drawing on stasis theory, this essay explores how the debate frame functions within U.S. journalism. Using the news coverage of Marissa Mayer’s coinciding pregnancy and promotion to Yahoo! CEO and the reportage of Hillary Clinton’s upcoming grandchild during the 2016 precampaign as case studies, I develop a two-part argument. First, by analyzing the rhetorical mechanisms within this media debate, I demonstrate how the debate frame makes facts themselves infinitely debatable, thereby stagnating this public debate at the stasis of fact. This ultimately perpetuates the “having it all” debate—and its sexist assumptions. Second, I consider the escape routes out of this dominant discourse, analyzing how arguments maneuver beyond the stasis of fact to consider policy reforms regarding women in the workplace.

Abstract The South China Sea is the world’s busiest and most important waterway, serving as the crossroads of global capitalism and the connective tissue of Southeast Asia. With shipping routes, underwater resources, and hundreds of small islands claimed by Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and others, the area stands among the world’s most contested regions. Since 1945, the United States Navy has dominated the area, but that hegemony is now in question as the People’s Republic of China (PRC) becomes more assertive as a rising power. In efforts to justify their clashing claims over the region, the United States and the PRC have launched campaigns against each other, producing a rhetorical crisis that may foreshadow war. To try to make sense of the rhetoric driving this crisis, the first part of this essay unpacks some of the colorful history of the South China Sea—its legacy of rogues, pirates, opium wars, and so on—to argue that it has always been less of a governed and ordered place and more of a transitory and heterodox space crisscrossed by overlapping intentions, designs, and dreams. From this perspective, any nation’s claims to sovereignty are fictions that aspire to be constitutive, albeit by erasing the constitutive claims of others. The second section of the essay then addresses the PRC’s use of “traumatized nationalism” to advocate for its rights in the South China Sea, while the third section tackles the United States’ use of “belligerent humanitarianism” to justify its actions. The essay concludes with an appeal for a postnational version of shared governance, called for in the name of defending the global commons from the militarized encroachments of nation-states.

Book Review| June 01 2017 Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom. By James Crosswhite. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013; pp. xiii + 407. $113.00 cloth; $38.00 paper. Sarah Burgess Sarah Burgess University of San Francisco Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (2): 366–372. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0366 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah Burgess; Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2017; 20 (2): 366–372. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0366 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2017 Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. By Stephanie LeMenager. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014; pp. xi + 288. $53 cloth; $24.95 paper. Kathleen M. de Onís Kathleen M. de Onís Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (2): 380–388. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0380 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kathleen M. de Onís; Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2017; 20 (2): 380–388. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0380 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This essay examines President Barack Obama’s March 28, 2011 address on the war in Libya to theorize a shift in twenty-first-century war rhetoric in which violence is insulated from critique through the numbing of public sensation. In contrast to traditional persuasive appeals aimed at securing collective participation and approval for war, Obama’s oratory is characteristic of “light war,” a mode of conflict that flows more freely by placing few demands on thought, feeling, and attention. I argue that Obama’s rhetoric limits the potential for audiences to sense the material consequences of war through a set of kairotic justifications in which violence is considered “just” in the dual sense that it just ended, and that it is just war, or merely a banal and quotidian version of conflict. After unpacking the anesthetizing features of Obama’s discourse, I conclude by addressing the prospects of resistance given the compressed interval for public thought and feeling to interrupt violent practices.

Book Review| June 01 2017 American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History. By Jenell Johnson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014; pp. +240. $49.50 cloth; $26.96 paper. Jordynn Jack Jordynn Jack University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (2): 369–376. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0369 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jordynn Jack; American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2017; 20 (2): 369–376. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0369 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| June 01 2017 Old Rhetoric and New Media Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice. By Douglas Eyman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015; pp. 1 + 162. $75.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media. By John Durham Peters. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015; pp. 1 + 409. $30.00 cloth; $20.00 paper.Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics: Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere. By Damien Smith Pfister. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014; pp. ix + 272. $69.95 cloth.Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities. Edited by Jim Rodolfo and William Hart-Davidson. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015; pp. v + 330. $90.00 cloth; $30.00 paper. Katie P. Bruner; Katie P. Bruner Katie P. Bruner and Paul R. McKean are doctoral students at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Paul R. McKean; Paul R. McKean Katie P. Bruner and Paul R. McKean are doctoral students at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ned O’Gorman; Ned O’Gorman Ned O’Gorman is Associate Professor of Communication at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Matthew C. Pitchford; Matthew C. Pitchford Matthew C. Pitchford and Nikki R.Weickum are doctoral students at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nikki R. Weickum Nikki R. Weickum Matthew C. Pitchford and Nikki R.Weickum are doctoral students at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (2): 339–356. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0339 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Katie P. Bruner, Paul R. McKean, Ned O’Gorman, Matthew C. Pitchford, Nikki R. Weickum; Old Rhetoric and New Media. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2017; 20 (2): 339–356. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0339 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract Less than a year after the bombing of Hiroshima, Congress passed the McMahon Bill for the domestic control of atomic energy, otherwise known as the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. In this article, I reconstruct the controversy surrounding the passage of this legislation, and specifically the effort by proponents of the McMahon Bill to focus the controversy on what role, if any, the military should have in decisions related to atomic policy. Throughout the controversy, proponents of the McMahon Bill evoked the threat of the garrison state to stress the dangers of a politically powerful military and presented the public with a choice between a slow-motion coup d’état led by experts in violence and a commission of experts appointed by the president. In so doing, they transformed what began as a controversy over how to control atomic energy in a manner consistent with the best traditions of representative democracy into a controversy over who was best qualified to manage atomic energy on the public’s behalf. This transformation allowed them to herald the passage of the McMahon Bill as a victory for democracy even as they acknowledged it as a historic break from tradition. The controversy over domestic control must be acknowledged as a key moment in the evolution of Cold War rhetoric—a rhetoric in which national security would trump issues of public participation and in which the public’s exclusion from the policy process could be taken for granted.

Abstract The Suez Crisis address, given in response to the exigencies of the Cold War, marked a dramatic shift in presidential rhetoric regarding the Middle East. In this essay I build upon Richard Gregg’s analysis of this speech by demonstrating how President Dwight Eisenhower’s rhetoric broke from previously articulated rationales for American engagement with the region and subtly proposed a new understanding of U.S. responsibility for the region that has yet to be refuted. This speech should be understood as establishing premises in presidential discourse that have been used to mobilize support for American intervention in the Middle East from the Eisenhower Doctrine to the present.

Book Review| March 01 2017 Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture. By Raka Shome. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014; pp. 256. $30.00 cloth; $95.00 paper. Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra; Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra University of Denver Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Bernadette Marie Calafell Bernadette Marie Calafell University of Denver Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (1): 186–189. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.1.0186 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra, Bernadette Marie Calafell; Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2017; 20 (1): 186–189. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.1.0186 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This article examines the rhetoric of an important, yet understudied, figure in the history of public relations, Bruce Barton. I argue that Barton attempted to mobilize those in the business community to adopt public relations in the creation of a more socially responsible free enterprise through a discourse of evangelical capitalism. Barton’s rhetoric, I argue, positions the corporation as a benevolent shepherd and the public as a submissive and adrift flock in need of salvation. This submissive relationship between public and corporation dovetailed with the technocratic understanding of politics espoused by Walter Lippmann that portrayed the public as a bewildered herd to be guided and mobilized as political leverage by managerial elites, ultimately providing ideological scaffolding for the maintenance and legitimization of corporate power through the appropriation of progressive rhetorics.

Book Review| March 01 2017 Intertextuality and the 24-Hour News Cycle: A Day in the Rhetorical Life of Colin Powell’s U.N. Address Intertextuality and the 24-Hour News Cycle: A Day in the Rhetorical Life of Colin Powell’s U.N. Address. By John Oddo. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2014; pp. xii + 369. $39.95 paper. Mark A. Thompson Mark A. Thompson San José State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (1): 183–186. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.1.0183 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mark A. Thompson; Intertextuality and the 24-Hour News Cycle: A Day in the Rhetorical Life of Colin Powell’s U.N. Address. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2017; 20 (1): 183–186. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.1.0183 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2017 Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric. By Scott Stroud. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014; pp. ix + 271. $79.95 hardcover. Ronald C. Arnett Ronald C. Arnett Duquesne University, Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (1): 190–193. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.1.0190 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ronald C. Arnett; Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2017; 20 (1): 190–193. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.1.0190 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2017 Popular Culture and the Evangelical Imagination American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism. By Matthew Avery Sutton. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2014; pp. ix + 459. $35.00 cloth.Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism. By Molly Worthen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014; pp. viii + 352. $27.95 cloth.Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Edited by Robert H. Woods Jr. (vols. 1–3). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013. $194.00 cloth. Christine J. Gardner Christine J. Gardner Christine J. Gardner is Guest Associate Professor with the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (1): 161–176. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.1.0161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christine J. Gardner; Popular Culture and the Evangelical Imagination. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2017; 20 (1): 161–176. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.1.0161 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2017 Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class. By Ian Haney López. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014; pp. xx + 277. $24.95 cloth; $17.95 paper. Jonathan P. Rossing Jonathan P. Rossing Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (1): 180–183. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.1.0180 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan P. Rossing; Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2017; 20 (1): 180–183. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.1.0180 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. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract The July 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the United States was heralded by many as the best possible chance of avoiding both a nuclear armed Iran and another war in the Middle East. Although success is far from certain, the path to the deal was even less so. That the Obama administration achieved a verifiable suspension of Iran’s enrichment activity in November 2013 was itself a major success. What is even more remarkable is that the Obama administration was able to do so while utilizing the same mix of policy tools, diplomacy, and pressure as the George W. Bush administration. The difference in outcomes is especially confusing given the tendency of foreign policy experts to hold that President Obama’s and President Bush’s foreign policy worldviews are relatively identical. I argue that a rhetorical perspective provides the answer. Specifically, President Obama responded to the challenge of Iran’s nuclear program by fashioning a frame of responsibility in a comic register, shifting the obligation to resolve the standoff peacefully onto both Iran and the United States. A crucial aspect of this rhetorical strategy was that it presented the Iranian regime with the option of rejoining the global community (albeit on restricted terms). Thus, Obama presented a hybrid of Kenneth Burke’s tragic and comic frames that chastised the Iranian regime for dangerous behavior while acknowledging American guilt, error, and responsibility for bringing the nuclear standoff to a peaceful end.

Book Review| December 01 2016 Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power. By Timothy Barney. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015; pp. Xiii + 322. $29.95 paper. Amber Davisson Amber Davisson Keene State College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (4): 699–702. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.4.0699 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Amber Davisson; Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2016; 19 (4): 699–702. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.4.0699 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. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract Scholars have repeatedly argued that Harry Truman’s decision to create the President’s Committee on Civil Rights would ultimately influence civil rights in the United States for many years afterward. However, scholars have been less clear in explaining what led Truman to act on civil rights in the first place. One important factor in the Truman administration’s creation of the committee that is often mentioned but almost never given as much attention as it deserves is the 1946 Georgia Lynching. Through a reception study of the articles, congressional debates, editorials, and speeches that responded to the murders, this essay argues that the murders of four African Americans in a small, rural town were transformed into a national focusing event because of how several key interpretive decisions emerged from the basic facts of the lynching in conjunction with larger cultural concerns. This analysis both highlights how the mass lynching came to have cultural significance and argues for the importance of rhetorical scholarship that engages the role of focusing events in both public debate and policy creation.

Abstract To address U.S.–China communication patterns, this essay juxtaposes discourses of democracy in decline (now prevalent in the United States), democracy as chaos (the chief claim of the Chinese Communist Party), and democracy as hope (embodied in the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong). To illustrate the rhetorical dynamics of these three positions, the essay analyzes coverage of the Hong Kong protests, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s bravura 2014 defense of U.S. imperialism, and the CCP’s blistering responses to both Hagel and the Hong Kong protests. These U.S.–China debates about democracy as decline, chaos, and hope are then situated within global conversations about the merits of democracy and stability in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings and ongoing concerns about the course of globalization. Ultimately, the essay argues for a new political style of prudent internationalism scrubbed free of both U.S.-style moralizing and Chinese-style absolutism.

Book Review| December 01 2016 Voting Deliberatively: FDR and the 1936 Presidential Campaign Voting Deliberatively: FDR and the 1936 Presidential Campaign. By Mary E. Stuckey. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015; pp. vii + 154. $64.95 cloth. Amos Kiewe Amos Kiewe Syracuse University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (4): 696–699. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.4.0696 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Amos Kiewe; Voting Deliberatively: FDR and the 1936 Presidential Campaign. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2016; 19 (4): 696–699. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.4.0696 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. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2016 Restorative Justice, Humanitarian Rhetorics, and Public Memories of Colonial Camp Cultures Restorative Justice, Humanitarian Rhetorics, and Public Memories of Colonial Camp Cultures. By Marouf Hasian Jr. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; pp. x + 256. $105.00 cloth. Peter Ehrenhaus Peter Ehrenhaus Pacific Lutheran University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (4): 709–711. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.4.0709 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Ehrenhaus; Restorative Justice, Humanitarian Rhetorics, and Public Memories of Colonial Camp Cultures. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2016; 19 (4): 709–711. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.4.0709 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. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| December 01 2016 War Had Transformed Them All: Coming to Terms with the Civil War The Abolitionist Imagination. By Andrew Delbanco. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012; pp. vii + 205. $24.95 cloth.American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era. By David W. Blight. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011; pp. 1 + 314; $27.95 cloth; $17.95 paper.Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. By Stephanie McCurry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012; pp. 1 + 449; $21.95 paper.Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865. By James Oakes. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2013; pp. ix + 595; $18.95 paper.Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War. By Michael C. C. Adams. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014; pp. ix + 292; $29.95 cloth. Jeffrey B. Kurtz Jeffrey B. Kurtz Jeffrey B.Kurtz is Associate Professor of Communication at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (4): 679–692. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.4.0679 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey B. Kurtz; War Had Transformed Them All: Coming to Terms with the Civil War. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2016; 19 (4): 679–692. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.4.0679 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. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: REVIEW ESSAY You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This essay argues against the prevailing historical conception that George Strock’s graphic photograph of three lifeless Marines—published by Life magazine on September 20, 1943—was the definitive point when domestic U.S. propaganda began to portray increasingly grisly images of dead American soldiers. After considering how the visual culture of the home front made the photo’s publication a dubious prospect for the government, I examine a series of predecessor images that arguably helped construct a rhetorical space in which such graphic depictions could gradually gain public acceptance and that, ultimately, ushered in a transformation of the home front’s visual culture.

Book Review| December 01 2016 Civic Jazz: American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along Civic Jazz: American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along. By Gregory Clark. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015; pp. 208. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. Raymond Blanton Raymond Blanton Creighton University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (4): 712–715. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.4.0712 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Raymond Blanton; Civic Jazz: American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2016; 19 (4): 712–715. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.4.0712 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. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.