Right Talk : How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society
By: Smith, Mark A. (Author).
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton. Published: 12/04/2009. Audience Guide: Professional & Vocational, Tertiary Education (US: College).
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The Right Talk argues that during the last 30 years...the language and logic of the market have invaded almost every corner of society--to the right's great advantage...Smith's further point--important by itself--is that while Republicans shifted their rhetoric and arguments toward the logic of the market, Democrats made a different shift, to their own political disadvantage... The Right Talk [is] worth reading as [a provocation] to greater clarity about the still unanswered question of why Republicans keep winning. -- Richard Parker American Prospect Given the upcoming elections and the current economic climate, this is a timely book, and one that can be understood by nonspecialists. -- S.L. Harrison Choice The Right Talk is a brilliant, provocative, well-written, and well-argued scholarly work. -- Philip C. Wander and Jay Busse Rhetoric Review Item Details
ISBN10/13: 0691141002/9780691141008
TITLE: Right Talk, The
CONTRIBUTORS: Smith, Mark A. (Author)
IMPRINT: Princeton University Press
PUBLISHER: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLICATION DATE: 12/04/2009
SUBJECT: Politics, Politics, Influence & Propoganda, Systems & Structures
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 152mm x 229mm
PAGES: 280
AUDIENCE GUIDE: Professional & Vocational, Tertiary Education (US: College)
ILLUSTRATIONS: 5 line illus. 8 tables.
CONTENTS: Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Chapter 2: The Role of Rhetoric in the Formation of Policy 21 Chapter 3: Economic Insecurity and Its Rhetorical Consequences 47 Chapter 4: The Building of Conservatives' Intellectual Capacity 73 Chapter 5: The Move to Economic Arguments by Conservative Intellectuals 95 Chapter 6: The Rhetorical Adaptations of the Republican Party 123 Chapter 7: Democrats and the Long Shadow of Deficit Politics 151 Chapter 8: The Republicans' Electoral Edge on the Economy 178 Chapter 9: The Broad Reach and Future Prospects of Economic Rhetoric 203 Notes 219 Acknowledgments 253 Index 255
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