Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 240
•
Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-4422-4291-3 • Hardback • August 2015 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-4422-4292-0 • eBook • August 2015 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
David R. Dewberry is associate professor of communication at Rider University. In addition to publishing numerous articles on rhetoric and free speech, he has served as editor of the journals First Amendment Studies and Communication Law Review.
Preface and Acknowledgements
1—Scandalous State of the Union
2—The Role of Journalism
3—Partisan Discourse Prior to the Smoking Gun
4—From Smoking Gun to Impeachment
5—Political Martyrdom
6—Contemporary Issues and Scandals
7—Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Bibliography
[F]aculty who teach courses such as Politics and the Media, Political Rhetoric, or Democracy and Citizenry should examine Dewberry’s book and consider whether to adopt it.
— Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Dewberry applies scholarship to scandal—a topic that can quickly turn salacious. The result is a theoretically-driven text that is both compelling and distinctive.
— Geoffrey Peterson, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
In this deep rhetorical analysis of political scandal, Dewberry makes the bold decision to separate the detailed investigation of four core case studies into common segments and presents these segments alongside each other within the various chapters. This approach highlights how often there are common stages to scandals, and allows readers to make very clear comparisons across the case studies.
— Steven Nawara, Lewis University
Provides a general framework for understanding the common stages of political scandal (rather than focusing on salacious details and individual scandals).
Analyzes political scandals from a rhetorical perspective.
Addresses howscandals happen in real time, not in the rearview mirror of history.