See It Now Confronts McCarthyism
Television Documentary and the Politics of Representation
Seeks evidence from media artifacts to reveal aesthetic, cultural, ideological, generic, and historical dimensions from classic television broadcasts
A Voice Of Their Own
The Woman Suffrage Press, 1840-1910
Rhetorical Dimensions Of Popular Culture
Supports the argument that rhetoric needs to be conceptualized as the social function that influences and manages meaning
A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy
Doing Rhetorical History
Concepts and Cases
This collection argues that rhetorical history, both as a methodology
and as a perspective, offers insights that are central to the study of
communication and unavailable through other approaches.
A Theory of Argumentation
"Hear O Israel"
The History of American Jewish Preaching, 1654-1970
Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse
Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse analyzes argumentation in ordinary disputes.
Addressing Postmodernity
Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change
Reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change
Lift Every Voice
African American Oratory, 1787-1901
Popular Trials
Rhetoric, Mass Media, and the Law
Contemporary scholarship illustrates the law’s increasingly powerful role in American life; legal education, in turn, has focused on the problems and techniques of communication. This book addresses these interests through critical study of eight popular trials: the 17th-century trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, and the 20th-century trials of Scopes, the Rosenbergs, the Chicago Seven, the Catonsville Nine, John Hinckley, Claus von Bulow, and San Diego Mayor Larry Hedgecock.
Presidents and Protestors
Political Rhetoric in the 1960s
An excellent and lucid introduction to the study of political rhetoric