Exxon Educational Foundation Series on Rhetoric and Political Discourse
5 primary works • 9 total works
Volume 3
In volume III, Kenneth W. Thompson centers on two original presentations at the Miller Center by the Pulitzer prize-winning biographer of Jefferson, Dumas Malone. Malone's two contributions are "The Rhetoric of the Founders" and "Jefferson and Madison." Other contributors are Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Norman Graebner, Lloyd Cutler, Daniel Lang, Hugh Sidey and Kenneth W. Thompson. Among other things, the volume is a festschrift to the late Professor Malone. Co-published with the Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Volume 9
Various public interest groups have been promoting such major constitutional reforms as the single six-year term for the American presidency. Several distinguished public figures and scholars examine this approach to governance and contrast it with the view that the primary purpose of the President and Congress is to preserve the present constitutional system. Contributors include Hedley W. Donovan, Senator Thomas F. Eagleton, Lou Cannon, I. M. Destler, and Kenneth W. Thompson.
Volume 16
National Interest and Global Goals
by George C McGhee, Peter F. Kroth, and Kenneth W. Thompson
Published 11 October 1989
From the changes wrought and suggested by President Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union, to progress in arms control and peace agreements among warring nations, to Western Europe's increasing economic unity, the world is changing before our eyes. A "window of opportunity" for the better fulfillment of U.S. national and international goals is gradually opening. How prepared is the United States to face this rapidly transforming world? Are the policies of the postwar 1940s adequate for the 1990s, or do we need to set for ourselves new international objectives and new strategies to carry them out? Is a new U.S. international agenda in order? Are our federal government, especially our foreign service and our military establishment, our private sector and our educational systemógeared to meet the requirements of the coming decade? This, the 16th volume in the Miller Center's Rhetoric and Reality series, explores these questions and more dealing with questions of international policy. Co-published with the Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Volume 19
Thousands of books offer competing explanations of the problems of communication between peoples. If there is any consensus, it is that the assumptions and presuppositions of the communicators shape and mold their conclusions. This volume aims to pose the issue through the thoughtful reflections of some of the nation's best minds. Those contributing are: Father Edward A. Malloy, President of the University of Notre Dame; Roger Shinn, former holder of the Reinhold Niebuhr chair at Union Theological Seminary and leader of Protestant thought; Dr. Joseph Fletcher, considered by many to be the father of "situation ethics;" E.D. Hirsch, author of the best-selling book, Cultural Literacy; Richard Rorty, English Professor at the University of Virginia who may be seen as a champion of trial and error, experimentation, pragmatism and empiricism; Edward Teller, a scientist sometimes called the "father of the hydrogen bomb;" Ian Craig, a rising young scholar of international relations; Martin Marty, one of the foremost scholars on the history of religion; Harold J. Berman, Woodruff Professor of Law at the Emory University School of Law; and Robert Benne, leading scholar of religion and society at Roanoke College.
Volume 20
This volume examines the rhetoric of contemporary politics and statesmanship. It discusses television, changing value systems, and other forces which influence the national and international politics of the late twentieth century. Topics include the role of rhetoric in the media, liberalism and conservatism, national defense, and intelligence work, as well as the rhetoric and reality of presidential and international politics.
PM^RExamines moral and political discourse manifest in Theory and Practice in International Relations, an original monograph by Kenneth W. Thompson. The book is a study of moral reasoning approached first at the level of theory and examined thereafter in a series of foreign policy case studies including human rights and Soviet-American relations. Chapters deal with the use and abuse of norms, words and deeds in foreign policy and vision and reality in international politic
The issue of rhetoric and modern statesmanship is divided into four topics: the historical and philosophical background; problems of contemporary presidential rhetoric; the rhetoric of foreign policy and the rhetoric of discourse among statesmen. David Clinton addresses Tocqueville, democracy, and the moral issue in American statecraft. Halford Ryan looks at FDR's presidential rhetoric; Robert Orben examines speechmaking in the Ford administration; Gaddis Smith turns his attention to Carter's political rhetoric and Tom Griscom concentrates on Reagan's rhetoric. In the area of foreign policy, Forrest C. Pogue dissects the Marshall Plan and the Harvard speech; General George M. Seignious II evaluates the rhetoric and reality of change in the Soviet Union and Ambassador John W. Tuthill gives us Jean Monnetóthe man and the vision. In conclusion, Ladd Hamilton looks at presidential rhetoric and political discourse while Russell Baker provides an overview of presidential humor, rhetoric, and social criticism. Co-published with the Miller Center of Public Affairs.
While many people portray the American private and public sectors as antagonists, philanthropy constitutes a realm lying between the two. An institution unique in America, philanthropy draws its resources from the successes of free enterprise and seeks to apply them to the common good. The contributors are among the nation's foremost practitioners and scholars of philanthropy: Robert Payton, David Robinson, John G. Simon, Mark J. Rozell, Theodore Lowi, Pamela Vines, and Kenneth Thompson.
This volume considers the role of rhetoric and discourse in policy through the eyes of foreign policymakers. Its contributors include Louis J. Halle, I. M. Destler, Philip Odeen, James R. Schlesinger, and Dean Rusk. It illuminates the role and the limits of political rhetoric in foreign policy.