Mark Lavoie

Reagan's Soviet Rhetoric (eBook, PDF)

Telling the Soviet Redemption Story

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How did Ronald Reagan go from calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire" in his first term as president to saying the US had "forged a satisfying new closeness" with the Soviets by the end of his second term? In Reagan's Soviet Rhetoric: Telling the Soviet Redemption Story, rhetorical scholar Mark LaVoie examines the ways Reagan negotiated his shift from a vehemently anti-communist discourse to a rhetoric of guarded optimism about the future of US-Soviet relations that ultimately revealed a Soviet redemption narrative. Following Reagan's Soviet rhetoric from his 1947 testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee to his Farewell Address in 1989, LaVoie considers the President's use of "Soviet/Nazi analogy," "historical narrative," "reciprocity," and other rhetorical strategies in creating the narrative. Scholars and students of rhetoric, history, and international relations will find this book particularly interesting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 141
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978778092
• Artikelnr.: 74398378

Autorenporträt

Mark LaVoie is assistant professor in the Communication & Literature Department at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Context of the Cold War and Reagan's Rhetoric
Chapter Two: Reagan's Pre-Presidential Soviet Rhetoric
Chapter Three: Reagan's First-Term Soviet Rhetoric
Chapter Four: Reagan's Second-Term Soviet Rhetoric
Chapter Five: Conclusion
Bibliography
About the author