The Morality of Spin: Virtue and Vice in Political Rhetoric and the Christian Right (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781442210523)

The Morality of Spin explores the ethics of political rhetoric crafted to persuade and possibly manipulate potential voters. Based on extensive insider interviews with leaders of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful Christian right organizations in America, Nathaniel Klemp asks whether the tactic of tailoring a message to a particular audience is politically legitimate or amounts to democratic malpractice. Klemp's nuanced assessment, highlighting both democratic vices and virtues of the political rhetoric, provides a welcome contribution to recent scholarship on deliberative democracy, rhetoric, and the growing empirical literature on the American Christian right.


Author: Nathaniel J. Klemp
ISBN-10: 1442210524
ISBN-13: 9781442210523
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2012
Pages: 210
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2012