Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0674167112
ISBN 13
9780674167117
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
270
Description
Contention, argument, and power have always been the tradition in American political talk. Any country that began in a revolution was bound to have this history. But the language of argument uses particular words with particular, sometimes shifting, meanings and to know what they are and what they meant over time is a critical contribution to political history. It is true that politicians may act as though they are part of no particular ideological tradition, but history shows that, more often than not, they use an understood meaning to enhance their actions. As Daniel Rodgers shows in this book, rhetoric has consequences. - from Amzon
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