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Informationen zum Autor Robert L. Ivie is Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University and coauthor of Cold War Rhetoric: Strategy, Metaphor, and Ideology and Congress Declares War: Rhetoric, Leadership, and Partisanship in the Early Republic. Klappentext An analysis of American war rhetoric and democracy in the divisive age of terrorism. "Democracy and America's War on Terror is a superb book. Tight, coherent, and well conceived, it is a timely intervention in very important current events and issues. More important, it nicely joins commentary with a theoretical analysis of democracy that is compelling. This book is an excellent example of a kind of public intellectualism that is all too rare."--Jeffrey C. Isaac, author of The Poverty of Progression "Robert Ivie is a first-rate scholar, and this book shows a stunning mastery of the scholarship and journalism converging on the topic. He writes clearly and authoritatively on everything from Greek ideas about democracy and rhetoric to yesterday's speech by a politician. This is an important book deserving a wide readership."--Jay Mechling, author of On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth Zusammenfassung Robert Ivie discusses democracy's centrality to the national identity and how prevailing constructions of democracy constitute a republic of fear in which the threat of foreign and domestic ""others"" is chronically exaggerated through rituals of vilification and victimization.
