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Deplorable
Political campaigns in the United States, especially those for
the presidency, can be nasty-very nasty. And while we would like to
believe that the 2020 election was an aberration, insults,
invective, and yes, even violence have characterized US electoral
politics since the republic's early days. By examining the
political discourse around nine particularly deplorable elections,
Mary E. Stuckey seeks to explain why.
From the contest that pitted Thomas Jefferson against John Adams
in 1800 through 2020's vicious, chaotic matchup between Donald
Trump and Joe Biden, Stuckey documents the cycle of despicable
discourse in presidential campaigns. Looking beyond the character
and the ideology of the candidates, Stuckey explores the broader
political, economic, and cultural milieus in which each took place.
In doing so, she reveals the conditions that exacerbate and enable
our worst political instincts, producing discourses that incite
factions, target members of the polity, encourage undemocratic
policy, and actively work against the national democratic
project.
Keenly analytical and compulsively readable, Deplorable
provides context for the 2016 and 2020 elections, revealing them as
part of a cyclical-and perhaps downward-spiraling-pattern in
American politics. Deplorable offers more than a
comparison of the worst of our elections. It helps us understand
these shameful and disappointing moments in our political history,
leaving one important question: Can we avoid them in the
future?
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Slipping the surly bonds : Reagan's Challenger address
Millions of Americans, including hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, watched in horror as the Challenger shuttle capsule exploded on live television on January 28, 1986. Coupled with that awful image in Americans’ memory is the face of President Ronald Reagan addressing the public hours later with words that spoke to the nation’s shock and mourning. Focusing on the text of Reagan’s speech, author Mary Stuckey shows how President Reagan’s reputation as “the Great Communicator” adds significance to our understanding of his rhetoric on one of the most momentous occasions of his administration.
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The Good Neighbor
No modern president has had as much influence on American national politics as Franklin D. Roosevelt. During FDR's administration, power shifted from states and localities to the federal government; within the federal government it shifted from Congress to the president; and internationally, it moved from Europe to the United States. All of these changes required significant effort on the part of the president, who triumphed over fierce opposition and succeeded in remaking the American political system in ways that continue to shape our politics today. Using the metaphor of the good neighbor, Mary E. Stuckey examines the persuasive work that took place to authorize these changes. Through the metaphor, FDR's administration can be better understood: his emphasis on communal values; the importance of national mobilization in domestic as well as foreign affairs in defense of those values; his use of what he considered a particularly democratic approach to public communication; his treatment of friends and his delineation of enemies; and finally, the ways in which he used this rhetoric to broaden his neighborhood from the limits of the United States to encompass the entire world, laying the groundwork for American ideological dominance in the post-World War II era.
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Dynasties and Democracy
The 2016 election looked like it was going to be a battle between two powerful political dynasties. After all, in only eight of the last 28 years have people had a president not named Bush or Clinton, and early on, many people predicted that either a Bush or a Clinton would once again be living in the White House in 2017. Despite the fact that each president is elected, and that the presidency is not actually inherited, the familial element seems to trouble democratic politics. Here, Stuckey examines the ways in which that is both a historical and a contemporary phenomenon, as the fear of political dynasties has been a long-standing, if intermittent, element of the national politics.
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Rebooting Rhetoric and Public Address
This introduction provides a brief context for the rebooting of the journal,
including a history of the journal and the controversy that led to its
reimagining, and offers brief synopses of the individual essays included
within.
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On Rhetorical Circulation
From Michael Warner's insight that circulation begets communities through Michael McGee's important work on fragmentation and Lester Olson's observation that recirculation always involves the repurposing of texts, to Benjamin Lee and Edward LiPalma's argument that by performing and circulating performances of institutions and social roles those institutions and roles are created, it is clear that the logics of circulation are fundamental to the study of public address.
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The Donner Party and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion
There have been numerous studies of the frontier myth as it operated in the early republic and throughout our history. As a result of this work, we know a lot about the frontier myth, its history, elements, and ideological functioning. We know less, however, about how that myth developed when its ideological elements met the empirical realities of western emigration. I argue that four specific cultural fictions—erasure, civilization, community, and democracy—are integral elements of the larger fiction of the American frontier myth. By understanding them through the vehicle of the Donner Party narratives, we can deepen our understanding of that myth and the ways in which it operates and resonates throughout the national culture and contributes to the development of American national identity.
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