Title: Presidents and Protestors: Political Rhetoric in the 1960s
Abstract:The decade of the 1960s was a time of passionate politics and rhetoric. The resounding rhetoric, from Kennedy's celebrated inaugural address, to the outlandish antics of the Yippies, is the focus of t...The decade of the 1960s was a time of passionate politics and rhetoric. The resounding rhetoric, from Kennedy's celebrated inaugural address, to the outlandish antics of the Yippies, is the focus of this book. The importance of this volume is its consideration of both people in power (presidents) and people out of power (protesters), and its delineation of the different rhetorical bases that each had to work from in participating in the politics of the 1960s. This work places rhetorical acts within their specific political contexts, changing the direction of previous rhetorical studies from the sociological to the historical-political. Above all, this is an intellectual history of the 1960s as seen through the rhetoric of the participants, which ultimately shows that the major participants utilized every form of political discourse available and, consequently, exhausted not only themselves but the rhetorical forms as well.Read More
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-08-30
Language: en
Type: book
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