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Centrist Rhetoric - The Production of Political Transcendence in the Clinton Presidency (Hardcover, New)
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Centrist Rhetoric - The Production of Political Transcendence in the Clinton Presidency (Hardcover, New)
Series: Lexington Studies in Political Communication
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What exactly is happening when politicians evoke a center space
beyond partisan politics to advance what are unmistakably political
arguments? Drawing from an analysis of pivotal speeches surrounding
Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign and first term in office,
Centrist Rhetoric: The Production of Political Transcendence in the
Clinton Presidency takes an extended look at this question by
showing how the possibility of political transcendence takes form
in the rhetoric of the political center. Faced with a divided and
shrinking party, and later with a pitched battle against a
resurgent conservative movement, Clinton used the image of a
political center, a "third way" beyond liberal and conservative
orthodoxies, to advance his strategic goals, define his
adversaries, and overcome key political challenges. As appeals to
the center helped Clinton to achieve these advantages in specific
cases, however, they also served to define the means, ends, and
very essence of democracy in ambiguous and contradictory ways.
Touching on controversies from the early 1990s over the future of
the Democratic Party, racial identity in American politics, the
threat of rightwing extremism, and the role of government, Antonio
de Velasco show how centrist rhetoric's call to transcendence
weaved together forms of identification and division, insight and
blindness, so as to defy the conventional assessments of both
Clinton's supporters and his detractors. Centrist Rhetoric thus
offers general insight into the workings of political rhetoric, and
a specific appreciation of Clinton's attempts to define and adjust
to the political exigencies of a critical period in history of the
Democratic Party and politics in the United States.
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