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A War of Words - The Rhetorical Leadership of Jefferson Davis (Paperback)
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A War of Words - The Rhetorical Leadership of Jefferson Davis (Paperback)
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A War of Words analyzes Jefferson Davis's public discourse, arguing
that throughout his time as president of the Confederacy, Davis
settled for short-term rhetorical successes at the expense of
creating more substantive and meaningful messages for himself and
his constituents. Numerous biographies of Jefferson Davis have been
penned; however, until now, there had been no substantive analysis
of his public discourse as president of the Confederacy. R. Jarrod
Atchison's A War of Words uses concepts from rhetorical theory and
public address to help answer a question that has intrigued
scholars from a variety of disciplines since the collapse of the
Confederacy: what role, if any, did Davis play in the collapse of
Confederate nationalism? Most discussions of Davis and nationalism
focus on the military outcomes of his controversial wartime
decisions. A War of Words focuses less on military outcomes and
argues instead that, in the context of the Confederacy, Jefferson
Davis's rhetorical leadership should have been responsible for
articulating a vision for the nation-including the core tenets of
its identity, the values the nation should hold dear, the
principles it should never compromise, and the goals it should set
for its future. Undoubtedly, Davis possessed the skills necessary
to make a persuasive public argument. It is precisely because
Davis's oratory skills were so powerful that there is room to judge
how he used them. In short, being a great orator is not synonymous
with successful rhetorical leadership. Atchison posits that Davis's
initial successes constrained his rhetorical options later in the
war. A War of Words concludes that, in the end, Davis's rhetorical
leadership was a failure because he was unable to articulate a
coherent Confederate identity in light of the sacrifices endured by
the populace in order to sustain the war effort.
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