COMM 461
Spring 2015

 

For Further Reading . . .

  • Introduction to the Course
  • The Century Opens: 1900-1920
  • Years of Tumult: 1920-1945
  • The Post-War Years: 1945-1990s
  • Globalization and the Conservative Coalition: 1980-2008
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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.

    The Century Opens: 1900-1920

    Industrialization: Radical Responses and the Progressives

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

    Isolationism and Internationalism

    Suffrage

    • 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

    Years of Tumult: 1920-1945

    The Great Depression 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.

    World War II

    • 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.

    The Post War Years: 1945-1990

    The Cold War

    • Wayne Brockriede and Robert Lee Scott, Moments in the Rhetoric of the Cold War (New York: Random House, 1970).

    The Age of 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.
    • 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.

    Globalization and the Conservative Coalition

    Economic Conservatism

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

    Globalization and 9/11

    Neo-Conservatism: The Case for Iraq

    • James F. Klumpp, "The Three Arguments of Iraq." Critical Problems in Argumentation. Ed. Charles Arthur Willard. Washington: National Communication Association, 2005. 726-32.
    • James F. Klumpp, “Facts, Truth, and Iraq: A Call for Stewardship of Democratic Argument.” Engaging Argument. Ed. Patricia Riley. Washington: NCA, 2006. 1-17.