Books by Robert Root

"An engaging book that expands the analysis of popular culture and the uses of rhetoric as a methodological tool. In so doing, Root provides readers with an excellent introduction to both fields. Following a brief theoretical introduction, Root applies rhetorical analysis to the fields of advertising, advocacy, and entertainment. Within each of these areas, the reader is presented with a variety of examples that focus on the written, verbal, and visual aspects of rhetoric.... [The] book is an excellent introduction for students in a number of different disciplines, including English, communications, and sociology. Each of the nine substantive chapters is accompanied by a study guide that suggests ways to conduct a rhetorical analysis in that area. Root's writing style is lucid and the text is well organized. Undergraduate readersip."-Choice

Walt Whitman's meditation on time is the undercurrent running through Postscripts, a series of reflections on finding one's place in the endless chain of time. In linked essays, Robert Root ranges across American terrains and landscapes to offer readers a new perspective on the relationship between time and place, time and timelessness, history and personal history.

Part memoir, part meditation on the nature of biography, this is the story of recovering a hidden past - and of learning the complications of intimacy that develop between a biographer and his subject.