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  • Public Speaking in the 21st Century

    by Davis Houck ...
    Follow Laura, her roommates, an impassioned T.A., and a host of other characters as they navigate their way through public speaking. Read along as Aristotle gets a uniquely American update and the Sophists at last get their pedagogical say. Watch as YouTube and other web-based digital content gets leveraged for illustrative effect. And perhaps best of all, know that our dynamic platform is always ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Black Bodies in the River

    Searching for Freedom Summer

    by Davis W. Houck ...
    Series series Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series
    Nearly sixty years after Freedom Summer, its events—especially the lynching of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner—stand out as a critical episode of the civil rights movement. The infamous deaths of these activists dominate not just the history but also the public memory of the Mississippi Summer Project.Beginning in the late 1970s, however, movement veterans challenged this ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer

    To Tell It Like It Is

    Edited by Maegan Parker Brooks, Davis W. Houck ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972 conventions, to say nothing of addresses she gave closer to home, or with Malcolm X in Harlem, or even ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer

    To Tell It Like It Is

    Edited by Maegan Parker Brooks, Davis W. Houck ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972 conventions, to say nothing of addresses she gave closer to home, or with Malcolm X in Harlem, or even ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965

    Volume 2

    Edited by Davis W. Houck, David E. Dixon ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Religion
    Building upon their critically acclaimed first volume, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon's new Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 is a recovery project of enormous proportions. Houck and Dixon have again combed church archives, government documents, university libraries, and private collections in pursuit of the civil rights movement's long-buried eloquence. Their new ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Michael Moore and the Rhetoric of Documentary

    by Christine Harold, Brian L. Ott, Susan A. Sci, Thomas Rosteck, Thomas S. Frentz, Edward Schiappa, Daniel Ladislau Horvath, Peter B. Gregg, Davis W. Houck, Joseph Delbert Davenport, Kendall R. Phillips, Assistant Professor Jennifer L. Borda ...
    Not afraid to tackle provocative topics in American culture, from gun violence and labor policies to terrorism and health care, Michael Moore has earned both applause and invective in his career as a documentarian. In such polarizing films as Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko, Moore has established a unique voice of radical nostalgia for progressivism, and in doing so has become ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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