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Title American rhetoric in the New Deal era, 1932-1945 / edited by Thomas W. Benson
Published East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2006
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Description 1 online resource (529 pages) : illustrations, graphs
Series Rhetorical History of the United States ; Volume VII
Rhetorical history of the United States ; Volume VII.
Contents Introduction: American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era -- Thomas W. Benson ; 1. No Ordinary Rhetorical President: FDR's Speechmaking and Leadership, 1933-1945 -- Vanessa B. Beasley and Deborah Smith-Howell; 2. FDR as Family Doctor: Medical Metaphors and the Role of Physician in the Fireside Chats -- Suzanne M. Daughton; 3. Dictator, Savior, and the Return of Confidence: Text, Context, and Reception in FDR's First Inaugural Address -- Davis W. Houck and Mihaela Nocasian; 4. FSA Photography and New Deal Visual Culture -- Cara A. Finnegan
5. Eleanor Roosevelt: Social Conscience for the New Deal -- Beth M. Waggenspack6. The Rhetoric of Social Security and Conservative Backlash: Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor -- Ann J. Atkinson; 7. Necessity or Nine Old Men: The Congressional Debate over Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 Court-Packing Plan -- Trevor Parry-Giles and Marouf Hasian Jr.; 8. The Thundering Voice of John L. Lewis -- Richard J. Jensen; 9. Father Charles E. Coughlin: Delivery, Style in Discourse, and Opinion Leadership -- Ronald H. Carpenter; 10. Reconsidering the Demagoguery of Huey Long -- Robert S. Iltis
11. Resisting the "Inevitability" of War: The Catholic Worker Movement and World War II -- Carol J. Jablonski Bibliography; About the Authors; Index
Summary The New Deal era is hard to define with precision-in time or in ideology. Some historians use New Deal to designate the intense period of domestic reform legislation of the first Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, 1933-37. Others confine discussion of the era to the legislation of 1933, and identify another wave of legislation in 1935 as a Second New Deal. Most of the essays in this book focus on the prewar period, with glimpses that look forward to the rhetoric of the approach to and engagement in World War II
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
New Deal, 1933-1939.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
New Deal.
HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
New Deal, 1933-1939
Politics and government
Rhetoric -- Political aspects
Social movements
Social policy
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1929-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140463
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140464
United States -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140547
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Benson, Thomas W., editor
LC no. 2006021609
ISBN 9781609170073
1609170075