商品簡介
Fifteen American academics contribute 11 in-depth essays examining a selection of key speakers, images, and issues which helped to shape policies and attitudes in the U.S. during the New Deal era. Coverage includes an introductory overview of the period, FDR's speechmaking and leadership, medical metaphors and the role of the physician in FDR's "fireside chats," the development and reception of FDR's first inaugural address, Farm Security Administration photography and New Deal visual culture, Eleanor Roosevelt's changes to the rhetorical role of First Lady, the rhetoric of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the Congressional debate over Roosevelt's 1937 "court-packing" plan, the rhetorical career of United Mine Workers of America's president John L. Lewis, Father Charles E. Coughlin's rise to rhetorical influence, a reconsideration of the demogoguery of Huey Long, and Dorothy Day and the radical Catholic Worker movement. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Thomas W. Benson is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Rhetoric at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author ofWriting JFK: Presidential Rhetoric in the Bay of Pigs Crisis and other books, and has served as editor ofThe Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Quarterly, and The Review of Communication.
