Political Conversion - Personal Transformation As Strategic Public Communication

Informationen zum Autor By Don Waisanen 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 AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Political Transformation as a Pervasive StrategyChapter 1: Political Conversion as Manichaean Deduction: Whittaker Chambers's WitnessChapter 2: Political Conversion as Intellectual Reduction: Norman Podhoretz's Breaking RanksChapter 3: Political Conversion as Generational Induction: David Horowitz's Radical SonChapter 4: Political Conversion as Bypassed Seduction: Garry Wills's Confessions of a ConservativeChapter 5: Political Transformation in U.S. PoliticsBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Product details

• Authors: Don Waisanen
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781498575720
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7572-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Lexington Studies in Political Communication; Lexington Studies in Political; Lexington Studies in Political Communication
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Communication Studies, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising