Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Rhetorical Invention of Bill Clinton | Stephen A. Smith
Bill Clinton’s Campaigns for Governor of Arkansas: Prelude to a Presidency | Diana B. Carlin and Charles C. Howard
Rhetoric and Ritual in the Arkansas Inaugural Addresses | Glenn C. Getz
Bill Clinton’s Stump Speaking: Persuasion through Identification | John T. Llewellyn
The Jeremiadic Logic of Bill Clinton’s Policy Speeches | Craig Allen Smith
The Stylistic Persona of Bill Clinton: From Arkansas and Aristotelian Attica | Ronald H. Carpenter
The Voice of Concern and Concern for the Voice | Tony M. Lentz
Dodging Charges and Charges of Dodging: Bill Clinton’s Defense on the Character Issue | Greta R. Marlow
De/reconstructing Hillary: From the Retro Ashes of the Donna Reed Fantasy to a ’90s View of Women and Politics| Sandra Goodall
Imagining the Image: Reinventing the Clintons | Irving J. Rein
The New York Convention: Bill Clinton and “A Place Called Hope” | Larry D. Smith
The Intertextuality of “The Man from Hope”: Bill Clinton as Person, as Persona, as Star? | Thomas Rosteck
Presidential Debate as Political Ritual: Clinton vs. Bush vs. Perot | Dale A. Herbeck
Riding the Roller Coaster: Bill Clinton and the News Media | Philip Seib
Easy Access to Sloppy Truths: The ’92 Presidential Media Campaign | Rita Kirk Whillock
The First E-Mail Election: Electronic Networking and the Clinton Campaign| Thomas W. Benson
Clinton Goes to Town Hall | Janette Kenner Muir
Living in the Rock n Roll Campaign, or Mystery, Media, and the American Public Imagination: An Intertextual Quest | H. L. Goodall Jr.