TY - BOOK ID - 77869671 TI - Presidents and protestors : political rhetoric in the 1960s PY - 1990 SN - 0817389393 058509697X 9780585096971 0817305068 PB - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, DB - UniCat KW - English language KW - Peace movements KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Presidents KW - Rhetoric KW - Anti-war movements KW - Antiwar movements KW - Protest movements, War KW - War protest movements KW - Social movements KW - Rhetoric. KW - History KW - Protest movements. KW - Political aspects KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - Germanic languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77869671 AB - Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The decade of the 1960s was a time of passionate politics and resounding rhetoric. The "resounding rhetoric," from Kennedy's celebrated inaugural address, to the outlandish antics of the Yippies, is the focus of this book. The importance of this volume is its consideration of both people in power (presidents) and people out of power (protesters), and its delineation of the different rhetorical bases that each had to work from in participating in the politics of the 1960s. An excellent and lucid introduction to the study of political rhetoric, ER -