Making the case : advocacy and judgment in public argument / edited by Kathryn M. Olson ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olson, Kathryn M.

Series:

Rhetoric & Public Affairs

Rhetoric and public affairs series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political oratory--United States--Case studies.

Political oratory.

Communication in politics--United States--Case studies.

Communication in politics.

Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Political aspects--Case studies.

Persuasion (Rhetoric).

Rhetoric--Political aspects--Case studies.

Rhetoric.

Rhetorical criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-60917-344-9

OCLC:

815477836