Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1585443352 ISBN 13: 9781585443352

Casa editrice: Texas A & M Univ Pr, 2004

Riassunto

The environment figures prominently in American political debate of the twentieth century. Issues of wilderness and wetlands preservation, clean air and clean water, and the sustainable use of natural resources attract passionate advocacy and demands for national as well as local action. Presidents since Theodore Roosevelt have addressed these issues, rhetorically (though not always prominently) in their public addresses and pragmatically in their policies and appointments to pertinent positions.

Green Talk in the White House gathers an array of approaches to studying environmental rhetoric and the presidency, covering a range of presidential administrations and a diversity of viewpoints on how the concept of the rhetorical presidency” may be modified in this policy area.

Tarla Rai Peterson’s introduction discusses both methodological and substantive issues in studying presidential rhetoric on the environment. In subsequent chapters, noted scholars examine various aspects of half a dozen modern presidencies to shed light not only on those administrations but also on the study of environmental rhetoric itself. The final section of the book then directs attention to the future of presidential rhetoric and environmental governance, with looks in” at state-level environmental issues and looks out” at the international context of environmentalism.

As a whole, the volume is ideal for those looking to better understand the particular intersection of presidency, policy, and rhetorical studies.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

TARLA RAI PETERSON is currently a professor at the University of Utah. She served as principle organizer of the Presidential Rhetoric Conference that focused on environmental rhetoric while an associate professor of communication at Texas A&M.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Texas A & M Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1585443352
• ISBN 13: 9781585443352
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 294
• Redattore: Peterson Tarla Rai