Books by Amos Kiewe

This book interweaves rhetoric, history, and politics to tell the story of the 1824 presidential election and the political drama that engulfed Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams.

Offers significant insight into one of America's most famous - and infamous - presidents, and adds new and critical information to the study of rhetoric and politics in the United States.

Franklin Roosevelt's radio addresses, collectively called Fireside Chats, was also the birth of the media era of the rhetorical presidency. This work tells the story of the First Fireside Chat, the context in which it was constructed, the events leading to the radio address, and the impact it had on the American people and the nation's economy.

Synthesizing the strategies, self-contradictions, shifts, influences, and patterns in Reagan's economic discourse, Kiewe and Houck conclude that Reagan's economic discourse heavily influenced his views and rhetoric on foreign policy, national defense, the environment, and other issues--Reagan saw the world through economic lenses.