US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall (Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric) (Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498563201 ISBN 13: 9781498563208

Publisher: Lexington Books (UK), 2018

Synopsis

US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall examines “the nation’s front yard,” understanding it as both a public face the United States presents to the world and a site where its less apparent moral story is told. This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated examination of how the National Mall shares a moral story of the United States and, in so doing, reveals the soul of the nation. The contributors explore 11 different memorials, monuments, and museums found across the Mall, considering how each rhetorically remembers a key element of the nation’s past, what the rhetorical memory tells us about the nation’s soul, and how each site must thus be understood in relation to the commemorative landscape of the Mall.

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About the Authors

Roger C. Aden is professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University.

Lisa Benton-Short is a professor in the Department of Geography at George Washington University and a senior fellow at the GW Sustainability Collaborative. She has served as Program Director for the interdisciplinary sustainability minor and teaches the introduction to sustainability course.

Casey R. Schmitt is assistant professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498563201
• ISBN 13: 9781498563208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Roger C. Aden