Securing the Prize

"Fowler's cogently written book demonstrates the way evolving metaphors have influenced American foreign policy in the Persian Gulf over the last six decades."—Robert C. Rowland, University of Kansas, author of The Rhetoric of Donald Trump

"Fowler's examination of root metaphors in presidential war rhetoric makes an important contribution to our understanding of how we talk ourselves into war and how we might prevent war."—Paul J. Achter, University of Richmond, whose work has appeared in Quarterly Journal of Speech, Western Journal of Communication, and Critical Studies in Media Communication

"In Securing the Prize, Randall Fowler illuminates how the presidential use of metaphor creates, contains, and constrains US foreign-policy discourse and decision making."—Allison M. Prasch, University of Wisconsin–Madison, author of The World Is Our Stage and coeditor of Foreign Policy Rhetorics in a Global Era