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Author Houck, Davis W

Title Rhetoric as currency : Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression / Davis W. Houck
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (226 pages)
Series Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 4
Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 4.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. "Talk is Cheap": Herbert Hoover Responds to the Great Depression -- 3. Recontextualizing the Depression War: Christianity, Confidence, and Silence -- 4. "A Satisfactory Embodiment": FDR's "Run" for the Nomination -- 5. Making House Calls: Health, Sickness, and the "Body" Economic -- 6. Rhetoric, Silence, and the "Scene" of War: The Interregnum and the First 100 Days -- 7. Serendip
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index
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Subject Communication in politics -- United States
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
Communication in politics
Depressions
Economic history
Economic policy
Wirtschaftspolitik
Wirtschaftskrise
Politische Kommunikation
De Crisis.
Retorica.
Beeldvorming.
Economische politiek.
SUBJECT United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140023
United States -- Economic policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140033
Subject United States
USA
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00010486
ISBN 1585449008
9781585449002