This book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major British or American politicians and shows how metaphor is used systematically to create political myths of

Rhetoric is the art of speech and persuasion, the study of argument and, in Classical times, an essential component in the education of the citizen. For rhetori

"Rhetoric, Materiality, and Politics explores the relationship between rhetoric's materiality and the social world in the late modern political context. Taking

American Political Rhetoric is the only reader for introductory classes in American politics, government, and political communication designed to explore fundam

This timely book details the theoretical and practical elements of political rhetoric and their effects on the interactions between politicians and the public.