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Making the case

Making the case advocacy and judgment in public argument / [electronic resource] : edited by Kathryn M. Olson ... [et al.]. - East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - Rhetoric and public affairs series .

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- The beginnings of oratorical consciousness: restarting time in Homer's Odyssey, the telemachy / G. Thomas Goodnight -- Lysander Spooner's the unconstitutionality of slavery: a case study in constitutional hermeneutics, ethical argument, and practical reason / James Jasinski -- Kind persuasion: Lincoln's temperance address and the ethos of civic friendship / Michael Leff -- Andrew Johnson's fight for states' rights on the battlements of the constitution / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell -- No end save victory: FDR and the end of isolationism, 1936-1941 / John M. Murphy -- Iraq as a representative anecdote for leadership: Barack Obama's address on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War / Denise M. Bostdorff -- Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address: narrative signature and interpretation / Martin J. Medhurst -- To exist, you need an ideology: Alan Greenspan on markets, crisis, and democracy / Robert Asen.

9781609173449


Rhetorical criticism.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--Case studies.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Political aspects--Case studies.
Communication in politics--United States--Case studies.
Political oratory--United States--Case studies.


Electronic books.

JA85.2.U6 / M372 2012

320.97301/4