American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era, 1932-1945: A Rhetorical History of the United States, Volume VII
edited by Thomas Benson
Michigan State University Press, 2006 eISBN: 978-1-60917-007-3 | Cloth: 978-0-87013-767-9 Library of Congress Classification E806.A638 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 973.917
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The New Deal era is hard to define with precision—in time or in ideology. Some historians use New Deal to designate the intense period of domestic reform legislation of the first Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, 1933–37. Others confine discussion of the era to the legislation of 1933, and identify another wave of legislation in 1935 as a Second New Deal. Most of the essays in this book focus on the prewar period, with glimpses that look forward to the rhetoric of the approach to and engagement in World War II.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Thomas W. Benson is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Rhetoric at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Writing JFK: Presidential Rhetoric in the Bay of Pigs Crisis and other books, and has served as editor of The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Quarterly, and The Review of Communication.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction: American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era
Thomas W. Benson 000
1. No Ordinary Rhetorical President: FDR¿s Speechmaking and Leadership, 1933-1945
Vanessa B. Beasley and Deborah Smith-Howell 000
2. FDR as Family Doctor: Medical Metaphors and the Role of Physician in the Fireside Chats
Suzanne M. Daughton 000
3. Dictator, Savior, and the Return of Confidence: Text, Context, and Reception in FDR¿s First Inaugural Address
Davis W. Houck and Mihaela Nocasian 000
4. FSA Photography and New Deal Visual Culture
Cara Finnegan 000
5. Eleanor Roosevelt: Social Conscience for the New Deal
Beth M. Waggenspack 000
6. The Rhetoric of Social Security and Conservative Backlash: Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor
Ann Atkinson 000
7. Necessity or Nine Old Men: The Congressional Debate over Franklin D. Roosevelt¿s 1937 Court-Packing Plan
Trevor Parry-Giles and Marouf Hasian Jr. 000
8. The Thundering Voice of John L. Lewis
Richard J. Jensen 000
9. Father Charles E. Coughlin: Delivery, Style in Discourse, and Opinion Leadership
Ronald H. Carpenter 000
10. Reconsidering the Demagoguery of Huey Long
Robert S. Iltis 000
11. Resisting the ¿Inevitability¿ of War: The Catholic Worker Movement and World War II
Carol J. Jablonski 000
Bibliography 000
About the Authors 000
Index 000
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American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era, 1932-1945: A Rhetorical History of the United States, Volume VII
edited by Thomas Benson
Michigan State University Press, 2006 eISBN: 978-1-60917-007-3 Cloth: 978-0-87013-767-9
The New Deal era is hard to define with precision—in time or in ideology. Some historians use New Deal to designate the intense period of domestic reform legislation of the first Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, 1933–37. Others confine discussion of the era to the legislation of 1933, and identify another wave of legislation in 1935 as a Second New Deal. Most of the essays in this book focus on the prewar period, with glimpses that look forward to the rhetoric of the approach to and engagement in World War II.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Thomas W. Benson is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Rhetoric at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Writing JFK: Presidential Rhetoric in the Bay of Pigs Crisis and other books, and has served as editor of The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Quarterly, and The Review of Communication.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction: American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era
Thomas W. Benson 000
1. No Ordinary Rhetorical President: FDR¿s Speechmaking and Leadership, 1933-1945
Vanessa B. Beasley and Deborah Smith-Howell 000
2. FDR as Family Doctor: Medical Metaphors and the Role of Physician in the Fireside Chats
Suzanne M. Daughton 000
3. Dictator, Savior, and the Return of Confidence: Text, Context, and Reception in FDR¿s First Inaugural Address
Davis W. Houck and Mihaela Nocasian 000
4. FSA Photography and New Deal Visual Culture
Cara Finnegan 000
5. Eleanor Roosevelt: Social Conscience for the New Deal
Beth M. Waggenspack 000
6. The Rhetoric of Social Security and Conservative Backlash: Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor
Ann Atkinson 000
7. Necessity or Nine Old Men: The Congressional Debate over Franklin D. Roosevelt¿s 1937 Court-Packing Plan
Trevor Parry-Giles and Marouf Hasian Jr. 000
8. The Thundering Voice of John L. Lewis
Richard J. Jensen 000
9. Father Charles E. Coughlin: Delivery, Style in Discourse, and Opinion Leadership
Ronald H. Carpenter 000
10. Reconsidering the Demagoguery of Huey Long
Robert S. Iltis 000
11. Resisting the ¿Inevitability¿ of War: The Catholic Worker Movement and World War II
Carol J. Jablonski 000
Bibliography 000
About the Authors 000
Index 000
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