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Afterword: Trump as Anarchist and Sun King
(SOCIETAS, 2018)
Trump’s 2016 campaign was anarchy—it longed for a distant past outside of the current system. Trump argued repeatedly that the current American political system had to be destroyed because it had been corrupted by weak ...
A Discovered Dissembler Can Achieve Nothing Great”; Or, Four Theses on the Death of Presidential Rhetoric in an Age of Empire
(Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2007)
Because of the explosion of mass media, we have entered a new age of white noise; because of the disastrous extension of U.S. imperial ambitions, we have entered a new age of political deception; when these two historical ...
Ignoring the President: Barack Obama and the Postrhetorical Presidency
(Texas A&M University Press, 2017)
The rhetorical presidency model made good sense within the traditional media market of the twentieth century, but makes little sense within the new media market of the new millennium. The era of the rhetorical presidency ...
The Emergence of the Outrage Presidency
(Spectra, 2020-03-09)
"The culture of honor: How slaveholders responded to the abolitionist mail crisis of 1835"
(Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 2007)
In the summer of 1835 northern abolitionists mailed over 100,000 anti-slavery newspapers to slaveholders in the South, which led slaveholders to violently prevent the abolitionist sentiment from circulating in their local ...