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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455169103321

Autore

Windt Theodore

Titolo

Presidents and Protestors [[electronic resource] ] : Political Rhetoric in the 1960s / / Theodore Otto Windt, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1990

ISBN

0-8173-8939-3

0-585-09697-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

Studies Rhetoric & Communicati

Disciplina

808.53/0883512

Soggetti

English language - United States - Rhetoric

Peace movements - United States - History - 20th century

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Protest movements

Presidents - United States - History - 20th century

Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 1963-1969

United States Politics and government 1961-1963

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-303) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Presidents; 1. Presidential Rhetoric: Perspectives; 2. The Crisis Rhetoric of President John F. Kennedy: The First Two Years; 3. The Crisis Rhetoric of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Year; 4. Americanizing the Vietnam War: President Johnson's Press Conference of July 28, 1965; 5. Understanding Richard Nixon: A Psycho-Rhetorical Analysis; Protesters; 6. A Rhetorical Sketch of Protests: Perspectives; 7. Liberal Protest: Procedural Politics and Deliberative Rhetoric; 8. The Administrative Rhetoric of Credibility: Changing the Issues

9. The Dynamics of Ideology and Forms of Ideological Rhetoric10. The Diatribe or the Subversion of Delicacy; 11. Postscript to a Decade; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4  The decade of the 1960s was a time of passionate politics and resounding rhetoric. The "resounding rhetoric," from Kennedy's celebrated inaugural address, to



the outlandish antics of the Yippies, is the focus of this book. The importance of this volume is its consideration of both people in power (presidents) and people out of power (protesters), and its delineation of the different rhetorical bases that each had to work from in participating in the politics of the 1960s.  An excellent and lucid introduction to the study of political rhetoric,