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" Politicians and rhetoric : "
Jonathan Charteris-Black
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BL
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653947
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Charteris-Black, Jonathan,1955-
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Politicians and rhetoric : : the persuasive power of metaphor /\ Jonathan Charteris-Black
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2nd ed
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xiv, 370 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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9780230251649
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: 0230251641
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: 9780230251656
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: 023025165X
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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| Contents
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Persuasion, speech making and rhetoric -- Metaphor in political discourse -- Winston Churchill : metaphor and heroic myth -- Martin Luther King : messianic myth -- Enoch Powell : the myth of the oracle -- Ronald Reagan and romantic myth : 'from the swamp to the stars' -- Margaret Thatcher and the myth of Boudicca -- Clinton and the rhetoric of image restoration -- Tony Blair and conviction rhetoric -- George Bush and the rhetoric of moral accounting -- Barack Obama and the myth of the American dream -- Myth, metaphor and leadership
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Metaphor
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Rhetoric-- Political aspects
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| Dewey Classification
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825/.9109
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P301.5.M48C486 2011
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