Books in the Frontiers in Political Communication series

Rhetoric, Politics, and Hamilton: An American Musical approaches Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking cultural production as a rhetorical text with implications for contemporary U.S. politics. Chapters analyze the musical in relation to three broad themes: national public memory, social and cultural identity, and democracy and social change.

Rhetoric, Politics, and Hamilton: An American Musical approaches Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking cultural production as a rhetorical text with implications for contemporary U.S. politics. Chapters analyze the musical in relation to three broad themes: national public memory, social and cultural identity, and democracy and social change.

Using the tools of rhetorical criticism, the authors detail how memetic persuasion operates, with a particular focus on the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump. Make America Meme Again reveals the rhetorical principles used to design Alt-right memes, outlining the myriad ways memes lure mainstream audiences to a number of extremist claims.

This edited volume features essays derived from presentations delivered at the 15th Biennial Public Address Conference held at Syracuse University in October 2016, as well as additional material.

This edited volume features essays derived from presentations delivered at the 15th Biennial Public Address Conference held at Syracuse University in October 2016, as well as additional material.

The 2016 US election was ugly, divisive, maddening, and influential. In this provocative new book, Booth, Davisson, Hess, and Hinck explore the effect that everyday people had on the political process.

This volume analyzes selected speeches delivered by Benigno 'Noynoy' Simeon C. Aquino III, President of the Republic of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016.

This book considers the invisible role that the media play in shaping the way we think about terrorism, gun violence, fear, and identity. This book explores media coverage of five mass shootings over a 20-year period, examining the role that race, religion, and gender play in framing some of the most high-profile crimes of American society.

This book illustrates the conservative right's strategies - termed structural mechanisms - through four cases: PC discourse; a cultural politic of economic resentment; and the two parallel struggles over the authority to define reality pivoting around academic freedom and global warming.

A review of major post-World War II American foreign policy decisions made by authorities who were blinded by ideology. It tells us a simple lesson about politics: of all the motivations for political action, none is as lethal as ideology.

This book examines the ways that hatred comes alive in language and discourse. The author looks at the discourses of hate produced in these seminal texts in order to identify a homology of exclusion that unites the forms of right-wing extremism, giving them a common frame of reference when confronting social and political challenges.

Alternative Media and Politics of Resistance

Branding Democracy

This volume explores how rhetoric surrounding the urban and rural binary helps shape our understanding of those regions and the people who reside there.

This volume explores how rhetoric surrounding the urban and rural binary helps shape our understanding of those regions and the people who reside there.

This book addresses the rise of unruly spaces in society, as well as communicative strategies that citizens and activists may use to democratize them. The authors explore different strategies for the democratization of such spaces in urban environments, and the potential and problems of each.

This collection of essays and studies covers the 2016 presidential campaign and the first year of the Trump presidency and is suitable for communication and political science students and scholars.

The essays in Sport, Rhetoric, and Political Struggle contextualize sport and political struggle, examine the mobilization of resistance in sporting contexts, identify ongoing stigmas that present limitations in and around sport, and attend to prevailing ideological features that provoke questions for future research.

The essays in Sport, Rhetoric, and Political Struggle contextualize sport and political struggle, examine the mobilization of resistance in sporting contexts, identify ongoing stigmas that present limitations in and around sport, and attend to prevailing ideological features that provoke questions for future research.

This edited collection explores ways to better understand the rhetorical workings of political executives, especially the US president. Scholars of the presidency, rhetorical theorists and critics, and various authors examine how presidents use the institution, the media, and popular culture to instantiate, expand, and wield executive power.

This edited collection explores ways to better understand the rhetorical workings of political executives, especially the US president. Scholars of the presidency, rhetorical theorists and critics, and various authors examine how presidents use the institution, the media, and popular culture to instantiate, expand, and wield executive power.

This collection of essays and studies covers the 2016 presidential campaign and the first year of the Trump presidency and is suitable for communication and political science students and scholars.

Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric brings together critical essays on the cultural and political rhetoric of American indigenous communities.

Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric brings together critical essays on the cultural and political rhetoric of American indigenous communities.

Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From "Bitch" to "Badass" and Beyond examines the negotiation of feminist politics and gendered political leadership in twenty-first century U.S. popular culture.

Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. This book provides rhetorical critics an opportunity to revisit their published work on Obama in light of events that have occurred since its publication.