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- Presidents and Protestors: Political Rhetoric in the 1960s
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
- Series: Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
summary
An excellent and lucid introduction to the study of political rhetoric
The decade of the 1960s was a time of passionate politics and resounding rhetoric. The “resounding rhetoric,” from Kennedy’s celebrated inaugural address, to the outlandish antics of the Yippies, is the focus of this book. The importance of this volume is its consideration of both people in power (presidents) and people out of power (protesters), and its delineation of the different rhetorical bases that each had to work from in participating in the politics of the 1960s.
Presidents and Protesters places rhetorical acts within their specific political contexts, changing the direction of previous rhetorical studies from the sociological to the historical-political. Above all, this is an intellectual history of the 1960s as seen through the rhetoric of the participants, which ultimately shows that the major participants utilized every form of political discourse available and, consequently, exhausted not only themselves but the rhetorical forms as well.
The decade of the 1960s was a time of passionate politics and resounding rhetoric. The “resounding rhetoric,” from Kennedy’s celebrated inaugural address, to the outlandish antics of the Yippies, is the focus of this book. The importance of this volume is its consideration of both people in power (presidents) and people out of power (protesters), and its delineation of the different rhetorical bases that each had to work from in participating in the politics of the 1960s.
Presidents and Protesters places rhetorical acts within their specific political contexts, changing the direction of previous rhetorical studies from the sociological to the historical-political. Above all, this is an intellectual history of the 1960s as seen through the rhetoric of the participants, which ultimately shows that the major participants utilized every form of political discourse available and, consequently, exhausted not only themselves but the rhetorical forms as well.
Table of Contents
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- Presidents
- Protesters
- 11. Postscript to a Decade
- pp. 240-244
- Bibliography
- pp. 288-303
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817389390
Related ISBN(s)
9780817305062, 9780817305888
MARC Record
OCLC
44957605
Pages
329
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1990