The common style in American politics : a rhetorical analysis of ordinary, exceptional leadership

U.S. political leaders must be meritorious to warrant elected office but they also should be average so that they may demonstrate empathy and win the trust of citizens. Rhetoric makes this contradiction work, but no scholarship yet describes it satisfactorily. Worse yet, public opinion now holds pol...

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Main Author: Lind, Colene J.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21202