books by Davis W. Houck

books by Davis W. Houck

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Davis W. Houck

The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Davis W. Houck

Thomson Gale, 2007

This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2007. The length of the article is 579 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with ...

Rhetoric As Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression (Presidential Rhetoric Series, 4)
Davis W. Houck

Texas A&M University Press, 2001

In this text, Davis W. Houck uses the historical context of the Great Depression in America to explore the relationship of rhetoric to the economy and economic recovery. This study allows him to understand rhetoric as a process rather than as a series of isolated, discrete products.

Rhetoric, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-1965 (Studies in Rhetoric and Religion)

Baylor University Press, 2006

The Civil Rights Movement succeeded in large measure because of rhetorical appeals grounded in the Judeo-Christian religion. While movement leaders often used America's founding documents and ideals to depict Jim Crow's contradictory ways, the language and lessons of both the Old and New Testaments were often brought to bear on many civil rights ...

Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954?1965

University Press of Mississippi, 2009

An anthology of speeches providing eloquent evidence of the powerful contribution women made to the struggle

"It helps to be a Don if you're going to be a Deirdre": revisting the rhetoric of economics. (Review ...
Davis W. Houck

American Forensic Association, 2002

This digital document is an article from Argumentation and Advocacy, published by American Forensic Association on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 6956 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after ...

Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Greenwood Press, 1993

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. The 52 speech texts are arranged, with short introductions, into six topical chapters covering his Hollywood ...

FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address (The Library of Presidential Rhetoric)

Davis W. Houck

Texas A&M University Press, 2002

Absolutely fascinating
While researching a book about the 1936 murder of the writer Carl Taylor, I came across "FDR and Fear Itself," a book that talks quite a bit about Raymond Moley, FDR's speechwriter who would later become Carl Taylor's editor. I was interested in reading it, and I was ...

Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press
Davis W. Houck, Matthew A. Grindy

Univ Pr of Mississippi, 2008

Employing never-before-used historical materials, the authors of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press reveal how Mississippi journalists both expressed and shaped public opinion in the aftermath of the 1955 Emmett Till murder. Combing small-circulation weeklies as well as large-circulation dailies, Davis W. Houck and Matthew A. Grindy analyze ...

Fdr's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability (Presidential Rhetoric Series, No. 8)
Davis W. Houck, Amos Kiewe

Texas A&M University Press, 2003

Franklin Roosevelt instinctively understood that a politician of his era who was unable to control his own body would be perceived as unable to control the body politic. He therefore took great care to hide his polio-induced lameness both visually and verbally. In FDR's Body Politics. Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe draw on never-before-used primary ...

A Shining City on a Hill: Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989 (Praeger Series in Political ...
Amos Kiewe, Davis W. Houck

Praeger Publishers, 1991

This rhetorical criticism of spoken discourse examines Ronald Reagan's polished attempts to persuade the public on economic matters. Amos Kiewe and Davis Houck examine the substance, style, and developmental pattern of Reagan's rhetoric on economic matters and discuss how that rhetoric informed the president's views on other issues. This book ...