Making the case : advocacy and judgment in public argument /

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Imprint:East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages).
Language:English
Series:Rhetoric & Public Affairs
Rhetoric & Public Affairs.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12398000
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Other authors / contributors:Olson, Kathryn M., editor.
ISBN:9781609173449
1609173449
9781628960938
1628960930
9781611860528
1611860520
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest, viewed September 21, 2017).
Summary:In an era when the value of the humanities and qualitative inquiry has been questioned in academia and beyond, Making the Case is an engaging and timely collection that brings together a veritable who's who of public address scholars to illustrate the power of case-based scholarly argument and to demonstrate how critical inquiry into a specific moment speaks to general contexts and theories. Providing both a theoretical framework and a wealth of historically situated texts, Making the Case spans from Homeric Greece to twenty-first-century America. The authors examine the dynamic interplay of texts and their concomitant rhetorical situations by drawing on a number of case studies, including controversial constitutional arguments put forward by activists and presidents in the nineteenth century, inventive economic pivots by Franklin Roosevelt and Alan Greenspan, and the rhetorical trajectory and method of Barack Obama.
Other form:Print version: 9781609173449
Print version: Making the case. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2012 9781611860528
Standard no.:ebc3338286