Reagan and Public Discourse in America

Download or read book Reagan and Public Discourse in America written by Michael Weiler and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1992-10-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reagan and Public Discourse assesses the rhetorical legacy of the Reagan presidency. The essays in this collection focus on a variety of domestic and foreign policy controversies and identify a broad range of persuasive strategies and devices to reveal how Ronald Reagan both appropriated and transformed American public discourse in the 1980s. They analyse Reagan's impact not only on the policy issues of the 1980s but also in the process of public political discourse itself.