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Political Argumentation in the United States : Historical and contemporary studies. Selected essays by David Zarefsky.
Especially during Barack Obama's first campaign for the presidency, commentators and Obama himself noted several similarities between him and Abraham Lincoln. These comparisons became the premises for arguments from historical analogy. Such arguments can have several purposes, including making...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Early American political argumentation
- ch. 1 From "conflict" to "Constitutional question": Transformations in early American public discourse / J. Victoria Gallagher
- ch. 2 John Tyler and the rhetoric of the accidental presidency
- ch. 3 Debating slavery by proxy: The Texas annexation controversy
- ch. 4 Henry Clay and the election of 1844: The limits of a rhetoric of compromise
- pt. II Abraham Lincoln's political argumentation
- ch. 5 Consistency and change in Lincoln's rhetoric about equality
- ch. 6 "Public sentiment is everything": Lincoln's view of political persuasion
- ch. 7 Lincoln and the House Divided: Launching a national political career
- ch. 8 Lincoln-Douglas debates revisited: The evolution of public argument
- ch. 9 Philosophy and rhetoric in Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
- pt. III Argumentation and American foreign policy
- ch. 10 self-sealing rhetoric of John Foster Dulles / Carol Miller-Tutzauer
- ch. 11 Foreign policy as persuasion: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam
- ch. 12 George W. Bush discovers rhetoric: September 20, 2001 and the U.S. response to terrorism
- ch. 13 Making the case for war: Colin Powell at the United Nations
- ch. 14 US. and the world: The rhetorical dimensions of Obama's foreign policy
- pt. IV American political argumentation since the 1960s
- ch. 15 Great Society as a rhetorical proposition
- ch. 16 Lyndon Johnson redefines "equal opportunity": The beginnings of affirmative action
- ch. 17 Civil rights and civil conflict: Presidential communication in crisis
- ch. 18 Martin Luther King, the American Dream, and Vietnam: A collision of rhetorical trajectories / R. Steven Goldzwig
- ch. 19 Reagan's safety net for the truly needy: The rhetorical uses of definition / E. Frank Tutzauer
- ch. 20 Obama's Lincoln: Uses of the argument from historical analogy.