Kenneth N. Cissna is professor of communication at the University of South Florida. He is the author (with Rob Anderson) of "Moments of Meeting: Buber, Rogers, and the Potential for Public Dialogue" (SUNY, 2002) and "The Martin Buber-Carl Rogers Dialogue: A New Transcript with Commentary" (SUNY, 1997) as well as a monograph on "The Rhetoric of Public Dialogue" in "Communication Research Trends" (also with Meghan Clune, 2003). His edited book "Applied Communication in the 21st Century" (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995) won the Outstanding Book award from the Applied Communication Division of the Nationa...