{"product_id":"i-the-people-paul-elliott-johnson-9780817321093","title":"I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rhetorical examination of the rise of populist conservatism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI The People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e examines a variety of texts--ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets--to outline the populist character of conservatism in the United States. Paul Elliott Johnson focuses on key inflection points in the development of populist conservatism, including its manifestation in the racially charged presidential election of 1964, its consolidation at the height of Ronald Reagan's reelection campaign in 1984, and its character in successive moments that saw its fortunes wax and wane, including 1994, the Obama era, and the rise of Donald J. Trump. theorizing conservative populism as a rhetorical form, Johnson advances scholarship about populism away from a binary ideological framework while offering a useful lens for contextualizing scholarship on American conservatism.\u003ci\u003e I The People\u003c\/i\u003e emphasizes that the populist roots of conservative hegemony exercise a powerful constraining force on conservative intellectuals, whose power to shape and control the movement to which they belong is circumscribed by the form of its public-facing appeals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The study also reframes scholarly understandings of the conservative tradition's seeming multiplicity, especially the tendency to suggest an abiding conservative unease regarding capitalism, showing how racist hostility underwrote a compromise with an increasingly economized understanding of humanity. Johnson also contests the narrative that conservatives learned to practice identity politics from social progressives. From the beginning, conservatism's public vernacular was a white and masculine identity politics reliant on a rhetoric of victimhood, whether critiquing the liberal Cold War consensus or President Barack Obama. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Elliott Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817321098\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817321093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2023","brand":"Paul Elliott Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43988484555007,"sku":"9780817321093","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a5f9a25-c359-4ec3-82e3-6c122d4a7db9.jpg?v=1683294736","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-the-people-paul-elliott-johnson-9780817321093","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}