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volume 1, number 1
July 2001


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Gerard A. Hauser, Henry W. Johnstone, Jr.: Reviving the Dialogue of Philosophy and Rhetoric

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Franklyn S. Haiman, The ACLU as Guardian of Liberty

Samuel Walker. In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU. 2d ed. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. xxi +479 pages. $24.95 (paper).

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Steven R. Goldzwig, JFK: The Artful Evolution of a Great Communicator

Vito N. Silvestri. Becoming JFK: A Profile in Communication. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. xiv + 323 pages. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00.

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David Wilt, A Century of Mexican Cinema

Joanne Hershfield and David R. Maciel, editors. Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers. Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1999. xiv + 313 pages. Notes, index, photos. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

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Carole Blair, The Art Museum, Rhetoric, and Subjectivity

Thomas Patin. Discipline and Varnish: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, and Counter-Memory in the Museum. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. x+157 pages. Notes, bibliography, and index. $40.95.

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Lee Artz, Televised Campaigns against Communism and Democracy: The Origins of Network-Government Collaboration in Making News

Nancy E. Bernhard. U. S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 245 pages. Notes, bibliography, and index. $74.95.

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Martha Solomon Watson, Women and War: The Civil War and Northern Women Writers

Lyde Cullen Sizer. The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xvi + 348 pages. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

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Jeffrey A. Nelson, The Evolution of the Queer German Film

Alice A. Kuzniar. The Queer German Cinema. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. x + 314 pages. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

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Barry Brummett, Mediated Sports as Texts, Institutions, and Commodities

David Rowe. Sport, Culture and the Media. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, 1999. xiv + 193 pages. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95

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A. Cheree Carlson, Sponsorship and Corporate Politicking in the Early Years of Radio and Television

William L. Bird. Better Living: Advertising, Media, and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935-1955. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1999. 192 pages. $30.00.

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Josh Boyd, Nothing New Under the Sun: Anti-Tobacco Campaigns of the Early Twentieth Century

Cassandra Tate. Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of "The Little White Slaver." New York: Oxford University Press, 1999 (cloth), 2000 (paper). 204 pages. Appendix, notes, index. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

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Lisa Shawn Strange, Recovering Women's Voices: Temperance and Women's Rights


Carol Mattingly. Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998. xv + 177 pages. $34.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

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Nichola D. Gutgold, The Rhetoric of Women Governors

Brenda DeVore Marshall and Molly A. Mayhead, eds. Navigating Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Women Governors. Westport: Praeger, 2000. xxi+150 pages. $59.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

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J. Michael Hogan, Rod Hart: The Most Optimistic Man in America

Roderick P. Hart. Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good For Us. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. xvii + 309 pages. $32.50.

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Bryan C. Taylor, Nuclear Criticism

John Canaday, The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. xv + 310 pages. $22.95 (paper).

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Gary S. Selby, An Eloquent Life: The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass in Biographical Perspective

David B. Chesebrough. Frederick Douglass: Oratory from Slavery. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998. xviii + 176 pages. Notes, bibliography, and index. $62.50.

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Dreama G. Moon, Racial Redemption and the White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative

Fred Hobson. But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. 159 pages. $30.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

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William D. Romanowski, Movies, Morality, and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

Thomas Doherty. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xiii + 430 pages. Notes and index. $49.50 (cloth); $19.50 (paper).

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Leonard Shyles, Blaming Computers for Our Own Data Diet

C. A. Bowers. Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. viii + 216 pages. Bibliography and Index. $40.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

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Frederick C. Corey, Poetic Writing in Performance Studies

Ronald J. Pelias. Writing Performance: Poeticizing the Researcher's Body. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. ix + 168 pages. $ 34.95.

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Frank E. X. Dance, Embodied Communication and Dialogical Intimacy

John Durham Peters. Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. x + 293 pages. $26.00 (cloth); $16.00 (paper).

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Diane S. Hope, Freedom Fighter, Revolutionary, and Propagandist: Rediscovering an African American Hero

Timothy B. Tyson. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 308 pages. Notes, bibliography, index, photographs. $29.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

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S-A Welch, Addressing Reasoning's Composition

Edward Corbett and Rosa Eberly. The Elements of Reasoning. (2nd edition). Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000. 146 pages. Index. $16.00 (cloth); $9.00 (paper).

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Jim Schnell, A Foundation for Understanding Rhetoric and Communication in China

D. Ray Heisey. Chinese Perspectives in Rhetoric and Communication. Stamford, CT: Ablex, 2000. 297 pages. $73.25 (cloth); $34.50 (paper).

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Stephen J. Pullum, Southern Baptist Rhetoric

Carl Kell and Raymond Camp. In the Name of the Father: The Rhetoric of the New Southern Baptist Convention. Carbondale, Ill: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. vii + 176 pages. $34.95.

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Entire July 2001 issue

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