Contents
Introduction: American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era
Thomas W. Benson 000
1. No Ordinary Rhetorical President: FDR¿s Speechmaking and Leadership, 1933-1945
Vanessa B. Beasley and Deborah Smith-Howell 000
2. FDR as Family Doctor: Medical Metaphors and the Role of Physician in the Fireside Chats
Suzanne M. Daughton 000
3. Dictator, Savior, and the Return of Confidence: Text, Context, and Reception in FDR¿s First Inaugural Address
Davis W. Houck and Mihaela Nocasian 000
4. FSA Photography and New Deal Visual Culture
Cara Finnegan 000
5. Eleanor Roosevelt: Social Conscience for the New Deal
Beth M. Waggenspack 000
6. The Rhetoric of Social Security and Conservative Backlash: Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor
Ann Atkinson 000
7. Necessity or Nine Old Men: The Congressional Debate over Franklin D. Roosevelt¿s 1937 Court-Packing Plan
Trevor Parry-Giles and Marouf Hasian Jr. 000
8. The Thundering Voice of John L. Lewis
Richard J. Jensen 000
9. Father Charles E. Coughlin: Delivery, Style in Discourse, and Opinion Leadership
Ronald H. Carpenter 000
10. Reconsidering the Demagoguery of Huey Long
Robert S. Iltis 000
11. Resisting the ¿Inevitability¿ of War: The Catholic Worker Movement and World War II
Carol J. Jablonski 000
Bibliography 000
About the Authors 000
Index 000
