American Rhetoric and the Vietnam War (Hardcover)

"Rhetoric during wartime is about the creation of consensus," writes Justin Gustainis. In American Rhetoric and the Vietnam War, he discusses efforts to build or destroy public support of America's most controversial war of the century. Gustainis analyzes several important aspects of Vietnam era rhetoric: presidential rhetoric, protest rhetoric, and the war as portrayed in popular culture. Broadly defining rhetoric as the deliberate use of symbols to persuade, the author explores partisan use of speeches, marches, songs, military campaigns, gestures, destruction of property, comic strips, and films. Part One, Prowar Rhetoric, opens with a chapter devoted to the domino theory as a "condensation symbol." Subsequent chapters discuss the hero myth in reference to Kennedy and the Green Berets, rhetoric and the Tet Offensive, and Nixon's "Silent Majority." Part Two examines antiwar rhetoric, and includes studies of Daniel Berrigan, SDS and the Port Huron Statement, and the Weathermen. Gustainis argues that the antiwar movement did not stop the war, and may have prolonged it. In Part Three, he analyzes Doonesbury as antiwar rhetoric, then turns to an examination of how the war has been portrayed in popular film. Gustainis includes a political, military, and rhetorical chronology of the war as an appendix. Recommended for scholars and students of rhetoric and political communication.

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Praeger Series in Political Communication
Release date:	April 1993
First published:	April 1993
Authors:	J. Justin Gustainis
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-275-93361-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-275-93361-X
Barcode:	9780275933616

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