A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories

Essays in the The Prettier Doll focus on the same local controversy: in 2001,a third-grade girl in Colorado submitted an experiment to the school science fair. She asked 30 adults and 30 fifth-graders which of two Barbie dolls was prettier.

Video and computer games in their cultural contexts

Democracy and America's War on Terror brings the rhetorical dimension of democracy to bear on American culture in the divisive age of terrorism.

It will be of interest to public policymakers and informed general readers as well as students and scholars in the fields of rhetoric, political theory/philosophy, democratic theory, U.S. foreign relations/policy, war and peace studies, terrorism, and cultural studies.