Books by Davis W. Houck

Examines how different memory texts - filmic, landscape, presidential speech, and museums - function both to bolster and question the centrality of murdered white men in the legacy of Freedom Summer.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - the famous words from Franklin Roosevelt's first inaugural address. This study focuses primarily on the speech and its drafting (principally by Raymond Moley). Houck also tells of its delivery and the responses of those who were inspired by it.

This new anthology rounds out Ronald Reagan's rhetorical persona and fills a major gap in the literature about the man by offering an unbiased and a multi-dimensional picture of his public speeches during all phases of his political life.