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volume 1, number 2
October 2001

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Stephen Hartnett, American Declarations, Rhetorical History, and the Limits of Thematic Criticism

Harold K. Bush, Jr. American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiii +224 pages. $19.95.

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Lance Strate, Look Out, Old Mac is Back!

Paul Levinson.  Digital McLuhan:  A Guide to the Information Millennium.  London and New York:  Routledge,  1999.  xiv + 226 pages. Bibliography and index.   $27.95.

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Richard L. Johannesen, Ethics of Political Communication?

Robert E. Denton, Jr., editor.  Political Communication Ethics: An Oxymoron?  Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.  xi + 263 pages.  Selected bibliography and index. $69.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

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William D. Harpine, From Slavery to Enlightenment: Southern Rhetoric Revisited

W. Stuart Towns.  Oratory and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century South: A Rhetoric of Defense.  Westport, CT:  Praeger Publishers, 1998.  211 pages.  Notes, bibliography, index, and photographs.  $24.95 (paper).

W. Stuart Towns.  Public Address in the Twentieth-Century South:  The Evolution of a Region.  Westport, CT:  Praeger Publishers, 1999.  231 pages.  Notes, bibliography, index, and photographs.  $24.95 (paper).

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Bartholomew H. Sparrow, Bloody Television               

Matthew R. Kerbel. If It Bleeds, It Leads: An Anatomy of Television News.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. xii + 149.  $25.00.

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Thomas R. Burkholder, A Theory of Eloquence

James Perrin Warren. Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1999. x + 202 pages. Index. $40.00.

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Jake Harwood, Contexts of Coercion

Douglas Rushkoff. Coercion: Why We Listen to What “They” Say.  New York: Riverhead Books, 1999.   321 pages.   $24.95 (cloth); $14.00 (paper).

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William E. Wiethoff, Reconstructing Jurisprudence as Transformative Rhetoric

Allan C. Hutchinson. It’s All in the Game: A Nonfoundational Account of Law and Adjudication. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000. xii + 374 pages. Notes and index. $54.95.

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Amos Kiewe,  Memories of the Holocaust

Caroline Wiedmer. The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. x + 207 pages.  Notes and index.  $39.95.

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Thomas Rosteck, Why Docudrama?

Alan Rosenthal, editor. Why Docudrama? Fact-Fiction on Film and TV. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. xxi + 387.  $60.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

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Herbert W. Simons, The New Prince

Dick Morris. The New Prince. Los Angeles: Renaissance Books, 1999. 256 pages. $22.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

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Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Religious Women Rhetors

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. x + 399. Appendices and Index. $27.95 (paper).

Catherine A. Brekus. Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. x + 466. Index and bibliography. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

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Helen Sterk, Determination and Style—1930s Hollywood and Women’s Lives

Sarah Berry. Screen Style: Fashion and Femininity in 1930s Hollywood. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 234 pages. $25.95 (cloth); $20.76 (paper).

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Christofer Meissner, Toward a Better Understanding of Early Movie Audiences

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.  vi + 179 pages.  Notes and index. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

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Becky L. Omdahl, Understanding the Communication of Emotion

Sally Planalp. Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 312 pages. Bibliography and index. $59.95 (cloth);  $22.95 (paper).

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Reta A. Gilbert, Reporting the Human Elements of Social Science Research

Anna Banks and Stephen P. Banks. Fiction & Social Research: By Ice or Fire. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2000. iv + 272 pages. Notes, index. $62.00.

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Robert Alan Brookey, Genetic Rhetoric

Celeste Michelle Condit. The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. xvi + 325 pages. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

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Laura J. Gurak, Electric Rhetoric

Kathleen E. Welch. Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New Literacy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. 240 pages. $35.00.

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Robert Jensen, Scholars Need to Resist American Mythology about War

Jeffery A. Smith. War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. viii + 324 pages. Notes and index. $45 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

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Bruce G. Chabot, The Rhetoric of John’s Resurrection Narrative

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.  xi +152 pages. Footnotes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 (paper).

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Carol J. Jablonski, Value Transformations in “Old” and “New” Social Movements

Thomas R. Rochon. Culture Moves: Ideas, Activism, and Changing Values. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 280 pages. $52.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

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Nichola Gutgold, A History of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Before the 1939 Film

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. xii + 291 pages. $34.95.

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Kathryn M. Olson, Rhetoric and the American President

Richard J. Ellis, editor. Speaking to the People: The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical Perspective. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. 288 pages. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

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Corey Anton, More Than Interesting

Marcel Danesi. Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things: An Introduction to Semiotics. New York: Palgrave, 1999. 192 pages. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). 

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Howard Giles, Street Cops

David D. Perlmutter. Policing the Media: Street Cops and Public Perceptions of Law Enforcement. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000. xvi + 160 pages. $75.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

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