The Right Talk : : How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society / / Mark A. Smith.

Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into one that defines the nation's most important policy choices? Conventional...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2007
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (32 p.) :; 5 line illus. 8 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Role of Rhetoric in the Formation of Policy
  • 3. Economic Insecurity and Its Rhetorical Consequences
  • 4. The Building of Conservatives' Intellectual Capacity
  • 5. The Move to Economic Arguments by Conservative Intellectuals
  • 6. The Rhetorical Adaptations of the Republican Party
  • 7. Democrats and the Long Shadow of Deficit Politics
  • 8. The Republicans' Electoral Edge on the Economy
  • 9 The Broad Reach and Future Prospects of Economic Rhetoric
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index