Rhetorical Studies of National Political Debates: 1960-1992 / Edition 2

by Robert V. Friedenberg

Overview

This revised and updated edition remains the only book-length rhetorical analysis of national political debates from 1960 to the present. The contributors, all rhetorical critics, answer important questions about political debating in the United States, including: Why is the press involved in political debates? Why are debates likely to be an enduring part of our presidential campaigns? Why are some candidates successful as debaters while others are not? Chapter authors offer insight into the goals commonly shared by political debaters and the rhetorical strategies most frequently used by national political debaters. By providing an overall analysis of a variety of debate practices, this book demonstrates how debates have become more than just campaign spectacles, but rather complex, calculated political events with significant consequences. Predebate, debate, and postdebate strategies are considered in depth in these microanalyses. Scholars and students of speech communication, particularly those concerned with political communication, will find this volume noteworthy, as will those in the related disciplines of political science, history, and jourbanalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275943400
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/30/1993
Series:	Praeger Series in Political Communication Series
Edition description:	2nd ed
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

ROBERT V. FRIEDENBERG is Professor of Communications at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is a former communications consultant with the Republican National Committee and coauthor, with Judith Trent, of Political Campaign Communication (Praeger, 1983 and 1991).

Table of Contents

Introduction by Robert V. Friedenberg
The 1960 Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debates by Theodore O. Windt Jr.
The 1976 Carter-Ford Presidential Debates by Goodwin Berquist
The 1976 Mondale-Dole Vice Presidential Debate by Kevin Sauter
The 1980 Reagan-Carter Presidential Debate by Kurt Ritter and David Henry
The 1984 Reagan-Mondale Presidential Debates by Craig Allen Smith and Kathy B. Smith
The 1984 Bush-Ferraro Vice Presidential Debate by Judith S. Trent
The 1988 Bush-Dukakis Presidential Debates by Halford Ross Ryan
The 1988 Quayle-Bentsen Vice Presidential Debate by Warren D. Decker
The 1992 Clinton-Bush-Perot Presidential Debates by Dan F. Hahn
The 1992 Gore-Quayle-Stockdale Vice Presidential Debate by L. Patrick Devlin
Patterns and Trends in National Political Debates: 1960-1992 by Robert V. Friedenberg
Selected Bibliography on Political Camapign Debating
Index