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 This essay traces how Ronald Reagan’s invocation of Lenny Skutnik in his 1982 State of the Union address inaugurated a new generic norm for the president’s annual message to Congress. We argue that the invocation of a “Skutnik” enables presidents to display—both rhetorically and physically—the civic ideals they wish to laud, the national issues they deem important, and policy proposals they want to advance. When U.S. presidents honor individual citizens and seat them in the House Gallery before the nation and the world, these “Skutniks” fuse the judicial, epideictic, and deliberative characteristics of the State of the Union address. Abstract values and complicated policy agendas are simplified—and vivified—before the eyes. The body of the “Skutnik,” we argue, is particularly persuasive because it offers a physical representation of the overall body politic, a living, breathing metaphor testifying that the state of the union is, in fact, strong.

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

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

Book Review| September 01 2014 The Good Neighbor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of American Power The Good Neighbor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of American Power. By Mary E. Stuckey. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013; pp vii + 300. $59.95 cloth. Allison M. Prasch Allison M. Prasch University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (3): 553–558. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0553 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Allison M. Prasch; The Good Neighbor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of American Power. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2014; 17 (3): 553–558. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.3.0553 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2013 Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory. By Benjamin Hufbauer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006; pp. xi + 270. $35.00 cloth. Allison M. Prasch Allison M. Prasch University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2013) 16 (1): 198–202. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.1.0198 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Allison M. Prasch; Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2013; 16 (1): 198–202. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.1.0198 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2013 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.