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Title Making the case : advocacy and judgment in public argument / edited by Kathryn M. Olson [and 3 others]
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages)
Series Rhetoric & Public Affairs
Rhetoric & Public Affairs
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
Summary 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 to demonstrate how critical inquiry into a specific moment speaks to general contexts and theories. Providing both a theoretical framework and a wealth of historically situated texts, Making the Case spans from Homeric Greece to twenty-first-century America. The authors examine the dynamic interplay of texts and their concomitant rhetorical situations by drawing on a number of case studies, including controversial constitutional arguments put forward by activists and presidents in the nineteenth century, inventive economic pivots by Franklin Roosevelt and Alan Greenspan, and the rhetorical trajectory and method of Barack Obama
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest, viewed September 21, 2017)
Subject Political oratory -- United States -- Case studies
Communication in politics -- United States -- Case studies
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects -- Case studies
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Case studies
Rhetorical criticism.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
Communication in politics
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects
Political oratory
Rhetoric -- Political aspects
Rhetorical criticism
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Olson, Kathryn M., editor
ISBN 9781609173449
1609173449
9781628960938
1628960930