While much has been written on illicit drug use, policy, and drugs' relationship to crime, this study examines the drug war as most Americans have experienced it--through mass-mediated rhetoric: presidential drug war declarations, news stories and hype, public service announcements, and the like. Such rhetoric influences public opinion about illegal drugs, drug users, presidents, and the drug war itself. And according to this author, such rhetoric is also used as a public relations campaign designed to increase the popularity of government officials and to assure quiescence regarding particular policy programs. This study demonstrates the underestimated influence of rhetoric, political uses of public relations and the powerful influence they have on public opinion and the policy process.
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Examines the drug war as most Americans have experienced it--through mass-mediated rhetoric--and demonstrates the underestimated influence of rhetoric on the policy process.
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WILLIAM N. ELWOOD is Senior Research Scientist at NOVA Research Conmpany and Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Texas/Houston School of Public Health.
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Nancy Reagan's famous utterance and Nike's equally familiar sentence that begins with the same word are perhaps the most popular slogans in the United States today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
drug war enemies, drug foes, drug war campaign, drug war heroes, drug war enemy, illegal drug addicts, presidential definitions, victory over drugs, condensation symbol, idea that drugs, discursive perspective, policy resolutions, illegal drug users, war metaphor, war declaration, war perspective, drug criminals, presidential rhetoric Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, President Bush, White House, Nancy Reagan, New York, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, President Reagan, Office of National Drug Policy, District of Columbia, Los Angeles, Fourth Amendment, Jesse Corti, National Institute, World War, Lafayette Park, Drug Enforcement Agency, Forest Service, Funeral Home, Miss Nee, National Drug Control Strategy, New Haven, Operation Just Cause, Pusher's Plea New!
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Nancy Reagan's famous utterance and Nike's equally familiar sentence that begins with the same word are perhaps the most popular slogans in the United States today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
drug war enemies, drug foes, drug war campaign, drug war heroes, drug war enemy, illegal drug addicts, presidential definitions, victory over drugs, condensation symbol, idea that drugs, discursive perspective, policy resolutions, illegal drug users, war metaphor, war declaration, war perspective, drug criminals, presidential rhetoric Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, President Bush, White House, Nancy Reagan, New York, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, President Reagan, Office of National Drug Policy, District of Columbia, Los Angeles, Fourth Amendment, Jesse Corti, National Institute, World War, Lafayette Park, Drug Enforcement Agency, Forest Service, Funeral Home, Miss Nee, National Drug Control Strategy, New Haven, Operation Just Cause, Pusher's Plea New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Public Relations by Edward L Bernays on page 13, and page 19
- Nancy Reagan (Export) by K.C. Kelley on page 75, and Back Matter
- Free America by Judson Phillips on page 131, and Back Matter
- New Jack City in Back Matter
- Public Relations: Concepts and Practices by Raymond Simon in Back Matter
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- Public Relations Inquiry as Rhetorical Criticism: Case Studies of Corporate Discourse and Social Influence (Praeger Series in Political Communicatio) by William N. Elwood in Back Matter
- Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space (Latin America Otherwise) by Mary Pat Brady in Back Matter
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