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Making the Case : Advocacy and Judgment in Public Argument
ISBN: 9781611860528 | 1611860520
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Michigan State Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 11/1/2012
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In an era when the value of the humanities and qualitative inquiry has been questioned in academia and beyond, Making the Caseis 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 Casespans from Homeric Greece to twenty-first-century America... MORE
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Reflections on Making the Case | p. 1 |
| The Beginnings of Oratorical Consciousness: Restarting Time in Homer's Odyssey, The Telemachy | p. 17 |
| Lysander Spooner's The Unconstitutionality of Slavery: A Case Study in Constitutional Hermeneutics, Ethical Argument, and Practical Reason | p. 45 |
| Kind Persuasion: Lincoln's Temperance Address and the Ethos of Civic Friendship | p. 75... MORE |
| Andrew Johnson's Fight for States' Rights on the Battlements of the Constitution | p. 95 |
| No End Save Victory: FDR and the End of Isolationism, 1936-1941 | p. 127 |
| Iraq as a Representative Anecdote for Leadership: Barack Obama's Address on the Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq War | p. 161 |
| Barack Obama's 2009 Inaugural Address: Narrative Signature and Interpretation | p. 191 |
| To Exist, You Need an Ideology: Alan Greenspan on Markets, Crisis, and Democracy | p. 231 |
| Contributors | p. 257 |
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Kathryn M. Olson is Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Michael William Pfau is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Benjamin Ponder is an executive in the educational software industry. Kirt H. Wilson is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Pennsylvania State University.
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