American rhetoric and the Vietnam War

American rhetoric and the Vietnam War /

An analysis of Vietnam era rhetoric from John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon to Daniel Berrigan, the SDS, the Weatherman, and Doonsbury and the Green Berets.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gustainis, J. Justin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1993.
Series:Praeger series in political communication.
Subjects:
1945-1989
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Propaganda.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Protest movements > United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Mass media and the war > United States.
Protest movements.
Politics and government.
Propaganda.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1953.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Prowar rhetoric. Dangerous metaphor: the domino theory as condensation symbol
  • John F. Kennedy and the Green Berets: the rhetorical use of the hero myth
  • "Waist deep in the Big Muddy": rhetorical dimensions of the Tet Offensive
  • Nixon and the silent majority: the rhetoric of shared values
  • pt. 2. Antiwar rhetoric. Daniel Berrigan and the rhetoric of ultra-resistance
  • Rhetoric of paradox: SDS and the Port Huron statement
  • Bringing the war home: the rhetoric of the weathermen
  • pt. 3. The rhetoric of the media. B.D. goes to 'Nam: Doonesbury as antiwar rhetoric
  • From savior to psycho and back again: the changing role of Green Berets in Vietnam films
  • Apocalypse now: a Burkeian analysis of cinematic rhetoric
  • Appendix: The Vietnam war: a political, military, and rhetorical chronology.

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