COMM 461
Spring 2008

For Further Reading . . .

  • Introduction to the Course
  • Political Leadership
  • War and Peace
  • Leading Social Movements
  • Religious and Moral Leadership
  • Leadership in a Business Shaped World
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    Introduction to the Course

    • C. Wright Mills. "Mass Society and Liberal Education." Power, Politics, and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills. Ed. Irving Louis Horowitz. London: Oxford University Press, 1963. 353-73.

    Political Leadership

    Confronting Power: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement

    • Daniel Boorstin. The Americans: The Democratic Experience. New York: Vintage, 1973.

    Marshaling Public Will: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal

    • William E. Leuchtenburg. The FDR Years : On Roosevelt and his Legacy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
    • Alan Brinkley. Voices of Protest : Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression. New York : Knopf, 1982.

    Countering Political Motives: Ronald Reagan and the Destruction of the New Deal

    • Lou Cannon, President Reagan: Role of a Lifetime. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

    Policy Leadership: Bill Clinton's Health Care Proposal

    • Haynes Johnson and David S. Broder, The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.

    War and Peace

    • Robert L. Ivie. "Presidential Motives for War." Quarterly Journal of Speech 60 (October 1974): 337-45.
    • Robert L. Ivie. "Images of Savagery in American Justifications for War." Communication Monographs 47 (November 1980): 279-94.

    Leading Social Movements

    • Charles J. Stewart, Craig Allen Smith, and Robert E. Denton, Jr. Persuasion and Social Movements. 3rd ed. Prospect Heights IL: Waveland, 1994.
    • Leland M. Griffin. "The Rhetoric of Historical Movements." Quarterly Journal of Speech 38 (April 1951): 184-88.
    • Hans Toch. The Social Psychology of Social Movements. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.
    • Karyln Kohrs Campbell. Man Cannot Speak for Her. 2 vols. New York: Praeger, 1989.
    • Clayborne Carson, et al. The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader. New York: Penguin, 1991.
    • Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, and Anita Rapone. Radical Feminism. New York: Quadrangle, 1973.

    Religious and Moral Leadership

    • Condit, Celeste Michelle. "Crafting Virtue: The Rhetorical Construction of Public Morality." Quarterly Journal of Speech 73 (1987): 79-97.
    • Freeman, Sally A., Littlejohn, Stephen W., and Pearce, W. Barnett. "Communication and Moral Conflict." Western Journal of Communication 56 (1992): 311-329.
    • Frentz, Thomas S. "Rhetorical Conversation, Time, and Moral Action." Quarterly Journal of Speech 71 (1985): 1-18.