President Johnson's War on Poverty: Rhetoric and History

ISBN-13: 9780817352455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 304 str.

David Zarefsky

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"Readers of this fine book will learn far more about the War on Poverty and the foibles of U.S. liberalism in the postwar period than they will about rhetoric. This is both a great service and a great mercy.
"Zarefsky's effort is a gem. It uses rhetorical analysis to its best advantage: as a narrative thread rather than as an explanation.""-- Journal of Communication"
"Provocative and subtly argued . . . an important and original study.""-- Choice"
"Zarefsky's concentration on the struggles fought over the symbols of the antipoverty effort makes for an engrossing analysis of the War on Poverty from a fresh angle of vision . . .