These lively and penetrating essays by outstanding scholars of political communication examine President Clinton’s rhetorical work before he took the oath of office, presenting a unique perspective on the words and texts that brought him to the presidency and the dynamics of political media throughout the campaign. In these original, valuable, and deeply insightful interpretations, the success of Clinton as a public persuader and compelling orator is analyzed, as is the whole process of political communication in America at the end of the twentieth century.
Bill Clinton on Stump, State, and Stage
$32.95
The Rhetorical Road to the White House
Edited by Stephen A. Smith
978-1-55728-372-6 (paper)
6 x 9, 428 page
July 1994
“Bill Clinton, on Stump, State, and Stage: The Rhetorical Road to the White House is both intellectual and irrelevant, while at the same time being informative and engaging. Too few books regarding politics, or any other subject, combine these qualities as successfully as this well-edited, well- put-together collection.”
—James Carville, President Clinton’s 1992 Campaign Manager
“These eighteen essays offer deliciously diverse but consistently eloquent assessments of Bill Clinton’s political communication. Their rich blend of astute analysis and lucid writing provides an exciting, insightful range of perspectives on the process by which this man from Arkansas became the man in the White House.”
—Kathleen J. Turner, Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Communication, Tulane University, author of Lyndon Johnson’s Dual War: Vietnam and the Press
