Making the case : advocacy and judgment in public argument / edited by Kathryn M. Olson [and 3 others].
In an era when the value of the humanities and qualitative inquiry has been questioned in academia and beyond, Making the Case is an engaging and timely collection that brings together a veritable who's who of public address scholars to illustrate the power of case-based scholarly argument and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Rhetoric & Public Affairs.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 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.