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Volume 1, number 2
October 2001

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Anton, Corey. "More Than Interesting." Review of Marcel Danesi. Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things: An Introduction to Semiotics. New York: Palgrave, 1999. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 254-57.

Brookey, Robert Alan. "Genetic Rhetoric." Review of Celeste Michelle Condit. The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 215-18.

Burkholder, Thomas R. "A Theory of Eloquence." Review of James Perrin Warren. Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1999. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 171-73.

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs. "Religious Women Rhetors." Review of Rebecca Larson.  Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000; and Catherine A. Brekus. Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 194-98.

Chabot, Bruce G. "The Rhetoric of John's Resurrection Narrative." Review of Larry Darnell George. Reading the Tapestry: A Literary-Rhetorical Analysis of the Johannine Resurrection Narrative (John 20-21). Studies in Biblical Literature 14. Hemchabd Gossai, General Editor. New York: Peter Lang: 2000.  The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 230-33.

Gilbert, Reta A. "Reporting the Human Elements of Social Science Research." Review of Anna Banks and Stephen P. Banks. Fiction & Social Research: By Ice or Fire. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2000. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 212-14.

Giles, Howard. "Street Cops." Review of David D. Perlmutter. Policing the Media: Street Cops and Public Perceptions of Law Enforcement. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 258-61.

Gurak, Laura J. "Electric Rhetoric." Review of Kathleen E. Welch. Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New Literacy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 219-25.

Gutgold, Nichola. "A History of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz before the 1939 Film." Review of Mark Evan Swartz. Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Stage and Screen to 1939. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 243-46.

Harpine, William D. "From Slavery to Enlightenment: Southern Rhetoric Revisited." Review of W. Stuart Towns.  Oratory and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century South: A Rhetoric of Defense.  Westport, CT:  Praeger Publishers, 1998; and W. Stuart Towns.  Public Address in the Twentieth-Century South:  The Evolution of a Region.  Westport, CT:  Praeger Publishers, 1999.  The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 159-64.

Hartnett, Stephen. "American Declarations, Rhetorical History, and the Limits of Thematic Criticism." Review of Harold K. Bush, Jr., American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 148-50.

Harwood, Jake. "Contexts of Coercion." Review of Douglas Rushkoff. Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say.  New York: Riverhead Books, 1999.  The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 174-76.

Jablonski, Carol J. "Value Transformations in "Old" and "New" Social Movements." Review of Thomas R. Rochon. Culture Moves: Ideas, Activism, and Changing Values. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 234-42.

Jensen, Robert. "Scholars Need to Resist American Mythology About War." Review of Jeffery A. Smith. War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 226-29.

Johannesen, Richard L. "Ethics of Political Communication?" Review of Robert E. Denton, Jr. (Ed.).  Political Communication Ethics: An Oxymoron?  Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.  The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 155-58.

Kiewe, Amos. "Memories of the Holocaust." Review of Caroline Wiedmer. The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 183-86.

Meissner, Christofer. "Toward a Better Understanding of Early Movie Audiences." Review of Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby, editors.  American Movie Audiences: From the Turn of the Century to the Early Sound Era.  London: British Film Institute, 1999.  The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 204-08.

Olson, Kathryn M. "Rhetoric and the American President." Review of Richard J. Ellis, editor. Speaking to the People: The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical Perspective. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 247-53.

Omdahl, Becky L. "Understanding the Communication of Emotion." Review of Sally Planalp. Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 209-11.

Rosteck, Thomas. "Why Docudrama?" Review of Alan Rosenthal, editor. Why Docudrama? Fact-Fiction on Film and TV. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 187-90.

Simons, Herbert W. "The New Prince." Review of Dick Morris. The New Prince. Los Angeles: Renaissance Books, 1999. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 191-93.

Sparrow, Bartholomew H. "Bloody Television." Review of Matthew R. Kerbel. If It Bleeds, It Leads: An Anatomy of Television News.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 165-70.

Sterk, Helen. "Determination and Style-1930s Hollywood and Women's Lives." Review of Sarah Berry. Screen Style: Fashion and Femininity in 1930s Hollywood. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 199-203.

Strate, Lance. "Look out, Old Mac Is Back!" Review of Paul Levinson.  Digital McLuhan:  A Guide to the Information Millennium.  London and New York:  Routledge,  1999.  The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 151-54.

Wiethoff, William E. "Reconstructing Jurisprudence as Transformative Rhetoric." Review of Allan C. Hutchinson. It's All in the Game: A Nonfoundational Account of Law and Adjudication. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000. The Review of Communication 1, no. 2 (2001): 177-82.