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  • Remembering Jefferson

    Who He Was, Who We Are

    Finalist, Susanne M. Glasscock Book PrizeAn expert on presidential history and national identity explores the complicated and conflicted ways Americans remember Thomas Jefferson and what these impressions reveal about the nation he helped to found.Thomas Jefferson is everywhere. In Washington, DC, and on Mount Rushmore. In history textbooks and children’s picture books. On Broadway and HBO. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Used, Abused, and Sidelined

    Debating the Declaration

    Edited by Mary E. Stuckey ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    Since it was published in 1776, the Declaration of Independence has been used to advocate for social justice and to maintain inequitable social hierarchies; it has served as a model for justifying revolutions in other nations and for the Confederacy’s secession from the US federal government. But as we approach its 250th anniversary, this book asks: Does the Declaration still matter?In this volume ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • For the Enjoyment of the People

    The Creation of National Identity in American Public Lands

    National parks are widely revered as “America’s best idea”—they are abundantly popular and remarkably noncontroversial in the United States. American presidents use these parks to stake their claims to environmentalism, assert a singular national history, and define a unified national identity, often doing so inside the parks themselves. However, the establishment and history of almost every ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Defining Americans

    The Presidency and National Identity

    Winner: Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication AwardWinner: APSA Presidents and Executive Politics Legacy AwardAndrew Jackson spoke to Americans in ways that reflected the concerns of a young nation. Grover Cleveland helped citizens redefine themselves after the havoc of the Civil War era. FDR confronted widespread hardship with hope and determination, while Eisenhower spoke to our fears of the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Gender and Politics

    Changing the Face of Civic Life

    Series Book 52 - Frontiers in Political Communication
    Still today, the unequal and gendered distribution of power and participation in American politics remains perplexing. To address this challenge, Banwart and Bystrom examine the research from political communication, political science, and psychology to deepen our understanding of the intersection of gender and politics.Starting with the most common theoretical approaches, they trace the history ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Deplorable

    The Worst Presidential Campaigns from Jefferson to Trump

    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Political Rhetoric

    A Presidential Briefing Book

    Series series Presidential Briefings Series
    Rhetoric is among the most important and least understood elements of presidential leadership. Presidents have always wielded rhetoric as one tool of governance—and that rhetoric was always intended to facilitate political ends, such as image building, persuasion of the mass public, and inter-branch government persuasion. But as mass media has grown and then fragmented, as the federal bureaucracy ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Good Neighbor

    Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of American Power

    Series series Rhetoric & Public Affairs
    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 ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Political Vocabularies

    FDR, the Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument

    Series series Rhetoric & Public Affairs
    Political Vocabularies: FDR, the Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument uses a set of letters sent to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 by American clergymen to make a larger argument about the rhetorical processes of our national politics. At any given moment, national politics are constituted by competing political imaginaries, through which citizens understand and participate in ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • After Empire

    Myth, Rhetoric, and Democratic Revival

    Series Book 51 - Frontiers in Political Communication
    This book probes the mythic underpinnings of U.S. war culture, asking how myth can be reconfigured to foster a discourse more conducive to a culture of peace. It breaks with an imperial mindset of endless warfare and places myth’s creative potential into productive relationship with rhetoric’s democratic vocation to foster an attitude of tolerance and interdependence and resist the violence of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Beyond the Cold War

    Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe

    Series Book 50 - Frontiers in Political Communication
    Shortlisted for The International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award (2025)Most books about presidential rhetoric focus on the United States. Few American communication scholars concentrate on Central and Eastern Europe. Media pundits and scholars alike framed this region as a place used for the United States’ or Russia’s Cold War ends—even after the Cold War ended. ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Religious Freedom v. Equal Protection

    Clashing American Rights

    Series Book 47 - Frontiers in Political Communication
    This book examines significant clashes in First and Fourteenth Amendment issues in America. Any course in America that studies constitutional issues may benefit from focusing on a variety of issues raised in this book, including child torture and access to mandatory reporters, placing children into adoptive homes, prayer in public schools, religious tax exemptions, roadside memorials, military ... Read more

    $56.69 USD