Political Conversion - Personal Transformation As Strategic Public Communication

Informationen zum Autor Don Waisanen is associate professor in the Baruch College, CUNY Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. Klappentext This book analyzes political conversion stories as a communication strategy aimed at winning the hearts and minds of the public. Through key cases, it charts the historical and contemporary uses of this strategy as a type of civil-religious persuasion in public discourse, evaluating its features and functions in politics. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes political conversion stories as a communication strategy aimed at winning the hearts and minds of the public. Through key cases, it charts the historical and contemporary uses of this strategy as a type of civil–religious persuasion in public discourse, evaluating its features and functions in politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Political Transformation as a Pervasive Strategy Chapter 1: Political Conversion as Manichaean Deduction: Whittaker Chambers's Witness Chapter 2: Political Conversion as Intellectual Reduction: Norman Podhoretz's Breaking Ranks Chapter 3: Political Conversion as Generational Induction: David Horowitz's Radical Son Chapter 4: Political Conversion as Bypassed Seduction: Garry Wills's Confessions of a Conservative Chapter 5: Political Transformation in U.S. Politics Bibliography Index About the Author

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Don Waisanen
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781498575720
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7572-0
• Seiten: 256
• Serien: Lexington Studies in Political Communication; Lexington Studies in Political; Lexington Studies in Political Communication; Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Allgemeines, Lexika; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Communication Studies, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising