Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Rhetorical Analysis of the Reagan Administration
  • W. Barnett Pearce and Michael Weiler; Part I. The Invention of Reagan's Discourse; 1. Ceremonial Discourse: The Rhetorical Ecology of the Reagan Administration
  • Michael Weiler and W. Barnett Pearce; 2. Rhetoric, Legitimation, and the End of the Cold War: Ronald Reagan at the Moscow Summit, 1988
  • G. Thomas Goodnight; 3. President Reagan at the London Guildhall: A British Interpretation
  • Robin Carter; Part II. The Style of Reagan's Discourse; 4. Acting like a President.
  • Or, What Has Ronald Reagan Done to Political Speaking?
  • J. Jeffery Auer5. Antithesis and Oxymoron: Ronald Reagan's Figurative Rhetorical Structure
  • James Jasinski; 6. The Transformation of Actor to Scene: Some Strategic Grounds of the Reagan Legacy
  • Jane Blankenship and Janette Kenner Muir; Part III. Foreign Policy Case Studies; 7. A Rhetorical Ambush at Reykjavik: A Case Study of the Transformation of Discourse
  • W. Barnett Pearce, Deborah K. Johnson, and Robert J. Branham; 8. The Paranoid Style in Foreign Policy: Ronald Reagan's Control of the Situation in Nicaragua
  • Jeff D. Bass.
  • 9. When the Shoe Is on the Other Foot: The Reagan Administration's Treatment of the Shootdown of Iran Air 655
  • Marilyn J. YoungPart IV. Domestic Policy Case Studies; 10. The Reagan Attack on Welfare
  • Michael Weiler; 11. The City as Marketplace: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Urban Enterprise Zone Policy
  • DeLysa Burnier and David Descutner; 12. Civil Religion and Public Argument: Reagan as Public Priest of the Antiabortion Movement
  • Catherine Helen Palczewski; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.