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The Morality of Spin
Virtue and Vice in Political Rhetoric and the Christian Right
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2012
Summary
The Morality of Spin explores the ethics of political rhetoric crafted to persuade and possibly manipulate potential voters. Based on extensive insider interviews with leaders of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful Christian right organizations in America, Nathaniel Klemp asks whether the tactic of tailoring a message to a particular audience is politically legitimate or amounts to democratic malpractice. Klemp’s nuanced assessment, highlighting both democratic vices and virtues of the political rhetoric, provides a welcome contribution to recent scholarship on deliberative democracy, rhetoric, and the growing empirical literature on the American Christian right.
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Edition
1/2012
Copyright Year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-1052-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-1054-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
200
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
Ch01. Deliberative Democracy and Political Rhetoric No access
Ch02. When Rhetoric Turns Manipulative No access
Ch03. From Theoretical to Actual Manipulation No access
Ch04. Contextualizing Rhetoric No access
Ch05. Countercultural Christian Enclaves No access
