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6) Ring out freedom!: the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of the civil rights movement
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
x, 273 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
xii, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought in American political discourse after World War II, yet none of them was American, which proved crucial to their ways of arguing and reasoning both in and out of the American context. In an effort to convince their audiences they were American enough, these thinkers deployed deft rhetorical strategies that made their...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"As with other terrorist and extremist organizations, religion forms the basis of the Ku Klux Klan's dogmatic philosophy, providing justification for its beliefs and actions. Covering nearly a century of Klan ideology, this book examines the group's religious rhetoric in their literature and songs, from its heyday during the 1920s to 2014"--
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Series
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xi, 300 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"No modern president has had as much influence on American national politics as Franklin D. Roosevelt. During FDR's administration, power shifted from states and localities to the federal government; within the federal government it shifted from Congress to the president; and internationally, it moved from Europe to the United States. All of these changes required significant effort on the part of the president, who triumphed over fierce opposition...
Author
Series
Studies in rhetoric and religion volume 5
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xii, 217 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gary Selby shows how Martin Luther King, Jr. used the biblical story of Exodus to motivate African Americans in their struggle for freedom from racial oppression. Through an examination of King's major speeches, Selby illuminates the ways in which King drew from the Exodus narrative to offer his listeners a structure that explained their present circumstances, urged united action, and provided the conviction that they would succeed. Selby explains...
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages) : black and white illustrations.
Language
English
Description
"Volume 6 of The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research series focuses on the rapidly changing rhetoric coloring American politics. An increasingly polarized electorate combined with advances in technology have led to a combative and pitched rhetoric through more and more outlets. Each chapter is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing on communication studies, political science, history, and other fields. Using the extensive collection of the C-SPAN Video...
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Series
Language
English
Description
January 17, 1961: President Eisenhower delivered a speech three days before President-elect Kennedy's inauguration: three days that were the culmination of a lifetime of service that took Eisenhower from rural Kansas to West Point, to the battlefields of World War II, and finally to the Oval Office. As president, Eisenhower--former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during World War II--guided the U.S. out of war in Korea, through the threat of nuclear...
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Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the early United States, the language and symbols of American freedom inspired enslaved people and their allies to wage a real and revolutionary war against slavery"--
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xix, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Early in his campaign, Donald Trump boasted that 'I know words. I have the best words,' yet despite these assurances his speech style has sown conflict even as it has powered his meteoric rise. If the Trump era feels like a political crisis to many, it is also a linguistic one. Trump has repeatedly alarmed people around the world, while exciting his fan-base with his unprecedented rhetorical style, shock-tweeting, and weaponized words. Using many...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mind-control and licensed mental health expert Steven Hassan draws parallels between our current president and people like Jim Jones, David Koresh, L. Ron Hubbard, and Sun Myung Moon, arguing that this presidency is in many ways like a destructive cult. He specifically details the ways in which people are influenced through an array of social psychology methods and how they become fiercely loyal and obedient. Hassan was a former 'Moonie' himself,...
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