A Shining City on a Hill: Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989 by Kiewe, Amos

A Shining City on a Hill: Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275936341)

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A Shining City on a Hill: Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989 by Kiewe, Amos

A Shining City on a Hill: Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989

$95.00
A Shining City on a Hill: Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989 by Kiewe, Amos

A Shining City on a Hill: Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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This rhetorical criticism of spoken discourse examines Ronald Reagan's polished attempts to persuade the public on economic matters. Amos Kiewe and Davis Houck examine the substance, style, and developmental pattern of Reagan's rhetoric on economic matters and discuss how that rhetoric informed the president's views on other issues. This book demonstrates how rhetorical forces can play a significant role in shaping and selling economic policy.

Kiewe and Houck employ a variety of theoretical perspectives for their longitudinal study of Ronald Reagan's economic discourse, beginning with the former actor/President's Hollywood years. Their analysis of close to a hundred speeches provides a chronological account of the character and development of Reagan's economic rhetoric (as opposed to a critique of its effectiveness). Synthesizing the strategies, self-contradictions, shifts, influences, and patterns in Reagan's economic discourse, Kiewe and Houck conclude that Reagan's economic discourse heavily influenced his views and rhetoric on foreign policy, national defense, the environment, and other issues--Reagan saw the world through economic lenses. This study is valuable to political scientists, economists, and scholars of rhetoric.

Author: Amos Kiewe,Davis W. Houck
ISBN-10: 0275936341
ISBN-13: 9780275936341
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 09/23/1991
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.62h x 6.48w x 0.98d
By Amos Kiewe
By Amos Kiewe
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AMOS KIEWE is Assistant Professor of Speech and Communication at Syracuse University. His articles have been published in the Journal of American Culture, Communications Studies, and Legal Studies Forum.

DAVIS W. HOUCK is presently taking graduate courses at the Department of Rhetoric and Communication at the University of California at Davis, where he also teaches communications courses. His work has been published in Communications Studies.

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