This book examines a critical time and place in recent world history--the end of the Cold War--and the strategies and values employed in the public dipomacy of the Bush and Clinton Administrations to build domestic and international consensus. It provides insight into the uses of presidential power and provides a model and an illustration for how rhetoric may be used in the study of United States foreign policy.
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"...covering the regime of George Bush Senior and Bill Clinton's first term...a timely reflection..."--David B. MacDonald, Millennium
McEvoy-Levy does a good job of describing the significance of political rhetoric and identifying major rhetorical themes...
-American Political Science Review
McEvoy-Levy does a good job of describing the significance of political rhetoric and identifying major rhetorical themes...
-American Political Science Review
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Siobhán McEvoy-Levy is Visiting Assistant Professor, Butler University, and Visiting Fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.
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American exceptionalism is a ubiquitous theme of US politics from state and local to national arenas with deep cultural roots. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic renewal, public ecologies, fundraising luncheon, communication elite, public diplomacy, organizational process model, strategic rhetoric, foreign policy rhetoric, bureaucratic politics model, redeemer nation, rhetorical themes, private diplomacy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gulf War, Persian Gulf, President Bush, World War Two, Clinton Administration, Middle East, Desert Storm, Western Europe, Boris Yeltsin, Secretary Baker, United Nations, Abraham Lincoln, East European, President Clinton, Rush Administration, State Department, While Bush, Franklin Roosevelt, House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ronald Reagan, Saudi Arabia New!
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American exceptionalism is a ubiquitous theme of US politics from state and local to national arenas with deep cultural roots. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic renewal, public ecologies, fundraising luncheon, communication elite, public diplomacy, organizational process model, strategic rhetoric, foreign policy rhetoric, bureaucratic politics model, redeemer nation, rhetorical themes, private diplomacy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gulf War, Persian Gulf, President Bush, World War Two, Clinton Administration, Middle East, Desert Storm, Western Europe, Boris Yeltsin, Secretary Baker, United Nations, Abraham Lincoln, East European, President Clinton, Rush Administration, State Department, While Bush, Franklin Roosevelt, House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ronald Reagan, Saudi Arabia New!
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- Constructing the Political Spectacle by Murray Edelman on 6 pages
- Marching in Place: The Status Quo Presidency of George Bush by Michael Duffy on 5 pages
- Bill Clinton on Stump, State, and Stage: The Rhetorical Road to the White House by Stephen A. Smith on 4 pages
- New Directions in American Intellectual History by Professor John Higham on 4 pages
- Cold War Rhetoric: Strategy, Metaphor, and Ideology (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications) by Martin J. Medhurst on 4 pages
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