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A collection examining Dewey's influence on effective communication in a healthy democratic practice

The essays in this collection, written by sixteen scholars in rhetoric and communica…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061314/Rhetoric-of-the-Chinese-Cultural-Revolution
A startling look at revolutionary rhetoric and its effects

Now known to the Chinese as the "ten years of chaos," the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76) brought death to thousands of…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061282/Assembling-Arguments
Scientific arguments—and indeed arguments in most disciplines—depend on visuals and other nontextual elements; however, most models of argumentation typically neglect these important resources…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061256/Double-Consciousness-and-the-Rhetoric-of-Barack-Obama
Robert E. Terrill argues that, to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate indignities of racial exclusion that have stained c…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061233/The-Effects-of-Rhetoric-and-the-Rhetoric-of-Effects
An examination of the foundation of rhetorical criticism as reconceptualized for the twenty-first century

The Effects of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Effects tackles one of the thornies…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061223/Popular-Memories
A critical exploration of the ways public participation has transformed commemoration and civic engagement in the United States

In the last three decades ordinary Americans launched num…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061200/Rhetoric-and-Power
An examination of how intellectuals and artists conceptualized rhetoric as a medium of power in a dynamic age of democracy and empire

In Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061198/Rhetorical-Touch
Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching the sense of touch through the kinds of bodies and minds that rhetorical history and theory have tended…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061194/You-Cant-Padlock-an-Idea
You Can't Padlock an Idea examines the educational programs undertaken at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and looks specifically at how these programs functioned rhetorically to promot…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061057/Prisoners-of-Conscience
Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association's Hochmu…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800