Mary E Stuckey
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 139980 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mary E Stuckey |
| NOMBRES | Mary E |
| APELLIDO | Stuckey |
| FIRMA | STUCKEY M E |
| AFILIACIONES | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8461-5066 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Judicial Incommensurability
Although judicial opinions are designed to appear value free, principles are deeply embedded in these opinions; they are communicated in such a way as to appear purely legal disputes. This generic bind in which opinions must adjudicate fundamental disagreements over values as if they are not in fact an issue of value at all hinders the full resolution of some disagreements. Suits brought to the court by plaintiffs concerned, for example, about co…
The World Is Our Stage
Figure 0.1 of Allison M. Prasch’s The World Is Our Stage displays the average number of countries visited per year by each American presidential administration from 1906 to present. The most traveled president? George W. Bush, who averaged 17.5 countries per year. As Denise Bostdorff highlights in this forum, according to the data currently available, he is history’s most traveled American president.Bush visited seventy-three countries across his…
To Preserve Unimpaired”
Control of time is critical to the maintenance of settler colonial states. In the United States, which relies on linear conceptions of time, time is treated as moving forward, which implies a specific view of the national past. It also moves backward, which proscribes a particular understanding of future possibilities. In both cases, time is mobilized to produce political stasis, rendering it very difficult to question settler colonialist ideolog…
Defining Americans
Holocaust Distortion During the Global Pandemic
Far-right demagogues, including Thomas Massie (R-KY), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) have compared COVID related mandates to Nazi-era policies that restricted the movement of Jewish peoples, have repeatedly evoked the image of the concentration camp tattoo, and have referenced the Nazi’s T4 programme that mandated the forced sterilisation of people with disabilities. This rhetorical strategy is a form of Holocaust distor…
An Empire for Liberty”
Empire is central to US foreign policy aims but is rarely taken directly into account in studies of American presidential foreign policy rhetoric. We argue here that in doing such studies, analytic attention should be paid to questions of empire as foundational to the development of the United States and to articulations of the American nation. We examine two historical and two heuristic categories used to understand US presidential foreign polic…
The business of building a wall
This essay offers a metaphoric analysis of Donald J. Trump’s announcement speech. We argue that by focusing on two of his metaphors, the presidency as a business and his promise to build a wall, we are provided a better understanding of the symbolic structures that underlie his presidency, explaining both the nature of his support and the way he approaches his job as president
Rebooting Rhetoric and Public Address
This introduction provides a brief context for the rebooting of the journal, including a history of the journal and the controversy that led to its reimagining, and offers brief synopses of the individual essays included within
The Rhetoric of the Trump Administration
By extending the personalized presidency from the institution to the individual president while undercutting the bureaucracy's reliance on expertise and by attacking democratic norms and values, Donald Trump undermined both the executive as an institution and his own ability to govern. These elements of his presidential rhetoric are clarified with reference to Trump's relationships with the media, the executive branch, and the mass public, and ar…
The Power of the Presidency to Hurt”
Presidents are both individual agents who make rhetorical and political choices and discursive nodes through which political discourse circulates. As both agents and nodes, when presidents engage in educative, vituperative, and performative rhetoric, they are positioned to influence the form and content of the national discourse. Donald Trump largely eschews educative rhetoric. He depends heavily on vitriol, primarily using demeaning language, fa…
Damage to Democracy
Roderick Hart provides a useful set of criteria through which he argues we can better assess elections and their usefulness to democracy. While finding some points of agreement with Hart's assessment of the 2016 election, this essay takes up the question of whether his criteria advance our understanding of elections as contributing to the practice of rhetorical and political judgment
Republic of Spin
Book Review| March 01 2018 Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency. By David Greenberg. New York, NY: WW Norton, 2016; pp. xvii + 576. $35.00 cloth; $18.00 paper. Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Penn State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (1): 175–177. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaff…
The Party Politics of Presidential Rhetoric
American Elections and the Rhetoric of Political Change
Other| December 01 2017 American Elections and the Rhetoric of Political Change: Hyperbole, Anger, and Hope in U.S. Politics Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey is Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State University in University Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (4): 667–694. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0667 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon S…
Dynasties and Democracy
Other| September 01 2017 Dynasties and Democracy Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey is Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State University, University Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 539–544. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0539 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary E.…
The changing face of presidential campaigns
Political Rhetoric
The Great Silent Majority
Book Review| March 01 2016 The Great Silent Majority: Nixon's 1969 Speech on Vietnamization. By Karlyn Kohrs Campbell The Great Silent Majority: Nixon's 1969 Speech on Vietnamization. By Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2014; pp. 144. $35.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Georgia State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 1…
Political Tone
I have never been quite so conscious of the tone of a book review as I was writing this one, which is both to say that I liked this book quite a lot and learned a great deal from it. In taking on t
Civility, Democracy, and National Politics
This essay considers questions about civility raised in the discourse responding to the January 2011 shootings in Tucson, Arizona. Focusing on two sites of discord—the debate in the media and President Obama’s address at the memorial service for the victims—our analysis identifies two conceptions of civility and their corresponding assumptions about democracy and community, provides a critique of both conceptions, and offers a conceptual framewor…
On Rhetorical Circulation
Research Article| December 01 2012 On Rhetorical Circulation Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2012) 15 (4): 609–612. https://doi.org/10.2307/41940623 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary E. Stuckey; On Rhetorical Circulation. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2012; 15 (4): 609–612. doi: http…
FDR, the Rhetoric of Vision, and the Creation of a National Synoptic State
Throughout his administration, FDR engaged in a complex set of arguments that worked together to defend democracy in general as a viable form of government; American democracy as the highest expression of democratic government; the primacy of the federal government as the most efficient and effective locus of democratic power; and the executive office as the culmination of the form, efficiency, and locus of that power. My specific concern here is…
Governing at Home
Journal Article Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking Get access Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking. Ed. by Michael Nelson and Russell L. Riley. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011. x, 326 pp. Cloth, $39.95. Paper, $19.95.) Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journ…
The Donner Party and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion
There have been numerous studies of the frontier myth as it operated in the early republic and throughout our history. As a result of this work, we know a lot about the frontier myth, its history, elements, and ideological functioning. We know less, however, about how that myth developed when its ideological elements met the empirical realities of western emigration. I argue that four specific cultural fictions—erasure, civilization, community, a…
Bringing Candidacies in from the Cold
Sometimes, nontraditional candidates enter the electoral fray. Because of their minority status, these candidates can be seen as threatening and unsuitable for the presidency. Our analysis shows that the political context of such candidacies is an important factor in candidates' ability to break down the barriers to entry. Ironically, the ability to overcome minority status is greatest when that status is least relevant to the campaign
The Power of the Presidency to Hurt”
Presidents are both individual agents who make rhetorical and political choices and discursive nodes through which political discourse circulates. As both agents and nodes, when presidents engage in educative, vituperative, and performative rhetoric, they are positioned to influence the form and content of the national discourse. Donald Trump largely eschews educative rhetoric. He depends heavily on vitriol, primarily using demeaning language, fa…
The Rhetoric of the Trump Administration
By extending the personalized presidency from the institution to the individual president while undercutting the bureaucracy's reliance on expertise and by attacking democratic norms and values, Donald Trump undermined both the executive as an institution and his own ability to govern. These elements of his presidential rhetoric are clarified with reference to Trump's relationships with the media, the executive branch, and the mass public, and ar…
Never Cared to Say Goodbye
Presidents are always concerned with their places in history and spend considerable time trying to influence historical judgments. One important locus for the exercise of such influence is the campaign of a potential successor. This article analyzes the ways in which presidents attempt to influence judgments of their legacies through the campaigns of their vice presidents. We focus on presidential discourse during the campaigns of 1960, 1968, 198…
Bringing Candidacies in from the Cold
Sometimes, nontraditional candidates enter the electoral fray. Because of their minority status, these candidates can be seen as threatening and unsuitable for the presidency. Our analysis shows that the political context of such candidacies is an important factor in candidates' ability to break down the barriers to entry. Ironically, the ability to overcome minority status is greatest when that status is least relevant to the campaign
George Bush, , and American Democracy
This article examines the role the ideograph plays in George W. Bush's presidential rhetoric. By strategically wielding throughout his presidency, and by using it to amplify his use of association and dissociation, Bush connects his actions in important ways to the foundational myths of American democracy. In so doing, he provides powerful warrants for his actions, which undermine the very practices he claims to be supporting. That is, by using a…
Presidents and Political Contexts The Presidency in an Age of Limits. Michael A. Genovese The Politics Presidents Make
Political Communication
NEW DIRECTIONS IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION: A RESOURCE ROOK edited by David L Swanson and Dan Nimmo (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990—$39.95, ISBN 0-8039-3334-7,413 pp.) TELEVISION ACCESS AND POLITICAL POWER: THE NETWORKS, THE PRESIDENCY,AND THE "LOYAL OPPOSITION" by Joe S. Foote (New York: Praeger, 1990—$42.95, ISBN 0-275-93438-1, 212 pp.) MEDIATED POLITICAL REALITIES by Dan Nimmo and James E. Combs (White Plains, NY: Longman, 1990—price not given, p…
The business of building a wall
This essay offers a metaphoric analysis of Donald J. Trump’s announcement speech. We argue that by focusing on two of his metaphors, the presidency as a business and his promise to build a wall, we are provided a better understanding of the symbolic structures that underlie his presidency, explaining both the nature of his support and the way he approaches his job as president
American Elections and the Rhetoric of Political Change
Other| December 01 2017 American Elections and the Rhetoric of Political Change: Hyperbole, Anger, and Hope in U.S. Politics Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey is Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State University in University Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (4): 667–694. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.4.0667 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon S…
Civility, Democracy, and National Politics
This essay considers questions about civility raised in the discourse responding to the January 2011 shootings in Tucson, Arizona. Focusing on two sites of discord—the debate in the media and President Obama’s address at the memorial service for the victims—our analysis identifies two conceptions of civility and their corresponding assumptions about democracy and community, provides a critique of both conceptions, and offers a conceptual framewor…
On Rhetorical Circulation
Research Article| December 01 2012 On Rhetorical Circulation Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2012) 15 (4): 609–612. https://doi.org/10.2307/41940623 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary E. Stuckey; On Rhetorical Circulation. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2012; 15 (4): 609–612. doi: http…
By Any Other Name
For countless ages Nature had been preparing America for her new tenant. Stores of metal and beds of coal had been laid down; inland seas had deposited fertile plains; river valleys and mountain chains had fixed highways for settlement; forests had stretched over the land, and waterfalls foretold the rumble of mills. All was ready for sentient life.\n-Fredrick Jackson Turner, “American Colonization”’\nMuch like the legendary historian Frederick J…
The Rhetorical Presidency
Research on the rhetorical presidency has been marked by two important sets of theoretical divisions: individual versus institutional approaches to the analytic task and instrumental versus constitutive understandings of the rhetorical enterprise. In both cases, this has led to a situation in which scholars from the differing positions tend to talk past rather than to one another. In keeping with the generally interdisciplinary focus of political…
More rain and less thunder”
Through an analysis of the Nixon administration's rhetoric concerning Native Americans, this essay provides a framework for understanding rhetorical reconciliations between democratic political principle and repressive, even oppressive, political action. Our argument proceeds in three parts. We first provide a brief sketch of a key mechanism whereby practitioners of democracy seek to reconcile contradictions between principle and practice. We the…
Rebooting Rhetoric and Public Address
This introduction provides a brief context for the rebooting of the journal, including a history of the journal and the controversy that led to its reimagining, and offers brief synopses of the individual essays included within
Dynasties and Democracy
Other| September 01 2017 Dynasties and Democracy Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey is Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State University, University Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 539–544. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0539 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary E.…
FDR, the Rhetoric of Vision, and the Creation of a National Synoptic State
Throughout his administration, FDR engaged in a complex set of arguments that worked together to defend democracy in general as a viable form of government; American democracy as the highest expression of democratic government; the primacy of the federal government as the most efficient and effective locus of democratic power; and the executive office as the culmination of the form, efficiency, and locus of that power. My specific concern here is…
Governing at Home
Journal Article Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking Get access Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking. Ed. by Michael Nelson and Russell L. Riley. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011. x, 326 pp. Cloth, $39.95. Paper, $19.95.) Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journ…
Establishing the Rhetorical Presidency through Presidential Rhetoric
Theodore Roosevelt was an important figure in the development of the presidency as a primary and authoritative source for definitions of national identity. Through an analysis of three specific rhetorical moves Roosevelt made in arguments over the “proper” interpretation of the Brownsville Raid, this essay examines how Roosevelt both justified his dismissal of the soldiers and increased the definitional power of his institution. Brownsville highl…
"Constituting "The People
This project is focused on the long-term constitutive elements of presidential discourse; in other words, how rhetoric helps frame and determine national identity. Seemingly innocuous, and appearing in both ceremonial and policy addresses, presidential language concerning national identity helps shape the context, and thus sets the terms for more substantive, issue-laden debates. While one cannot measure the impact of this type of rhetoric in ter…
Here We Go Again
Rhetorical Exclusion
The liars had fooled everyone, white people and Indians alike; as long as people believed the lies, they would never be able to see what had been done to them or what they were doing to each other... if the white people never looked beyond the lie, to see that theirs was a nation built on stolen land, then they would never be able to understand how they had been used by the witchery; they would never know that they were still being manipulated by…
Political Communication
NEW DIRECTIONS IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION: A RESOURCE ROOK edited by David L Swanson and Dan Nimmo (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990—$39.95, ISBN 0-8039-3334-7,413 pp.) TELEVISION ACCESS AND POLITICAL POWER: THE NETWORKS, THE PRESIDENCY,AND THE "LOYAL OPPOSITION" by Joe S. Foote (New York: Praeger, 1990—$42.95, ISBN 0-275-93438-1, 212 pp.) MEDIATED POLITICAL REALITIES by Dan Nimmo and James E. Combs (White Plains, NY: Longman, 1990—price not given, p…
United States
Exploring the Urban Underclass
Spin Control
President Kennedy
Presidents and Political Contexts The Presidency in an Age of Limits. Michael A. Genovese The Politics Presidents Make
More rain and less thunder”
Through an analysis of the Nixon administration's rhetoric concerning Native Americans, this essay provides a framework for understanding rhetorical reconciliations between democratic political principle and repressive, even oppressive, political action. Our argument proceeds in three parts. We first provide a brief sketch of a key mechanism whereby practitioners of democracy seek to reconcile contradictions between principle and practice. We the…
The Rhetorical Presidency
Research on the rhetorical presidency has been marked by two important sets of theoretical divisions: individual versus institutional approaches to the analytic task and instrumental versus constitutive understandings of the rhetorical enterprise. In both cases, this has led to a situation in which scholars from the differing positions tend to talk past rather than to one another. In keeping with the generally interdisciplinary focus of political…
Rhetorical Exclusion
The liars had fooled everyone, white people and Indians alike; as long as people believed the lies, they would never be able to see what had been done to them or what they were doing to each other... if the white people never looked beyond the lie, to see that theirs was a nation built on stolen land, then they would never be able to understand how they had been used by the witchery; they would never know that they were still being manipulated by…
Sex, Lies, and Presidential Leadership
The plethora of arguments surrounding the events of the Monica Lewinsky affair and Clinton's resulting impeachment trial provide us with valuable material through which we can begin to understand the varying definitions of what the presidency is and how it should operate. Arguments from the trial transcripts and reports in various media outlets provide perspective on the competing definitions of presidential power and the president's role in the …
Here We Go Again
By Any Other Name
For countless ages Nature had been preparing America for her new tenant. Stores of metal and beds of coal had been laid down; inland seas had deposited fertile plains; river valleys and mountain chains had fixed highways for settlement; forests had stretched over the land, and waterfalls foretold the rumble of mills. All was ready for sentient life.\n-Fredrick Jackson Turner, “American Colonization”’\nMuch like the legendary historian Frederick J…
Never Cared to Say Goodbye
Presidents are always concerned with their places in history and spend considerable time trying to influence historical judgments. One important locus for the exercise of such influence is the campaign of a potential successor. This article analyzes the ways in which presidents attempt to influence judgments of their legacies through the campaigns of their vice presidents. We focus on presidential discourse during the campaigns of 1960, 1968, 198…
Cultured Memories
“We tried to run,” Louise Weasel Bear said, “but they shot us like we were a buffalo. I know there are some good white people, but the soldiers must be mean to shoot children and women. Indian soldiers would not do that to white children.”\n—Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee\nSocial images of Indian/white relations, so typically born and nurtured in fiction, frequently seem impervious to fact, circumstance, perspective, or even argument. D…
Establishing the Rhetorical Presidency through Presidential Rhetoric
Theodore Roosevelt was an important figure in the development of the presidency as a primary and authoritative source for definitions of national identity. Through an analysis of three specific rhetorical moves Roosevelt made in arguments over the “proper” interpretation of the Brownsville Raid, this essay examines how Roosevelt both justified his dismissal of the soldiers and increased the definitional power of his institution. Brownsville highl…
"Constituting "The People
This project is focused on the long-term constitutive elements of presidential discourse; in other words, how rhetoric helps frame and determine national identity. Seemingly innocuous, and appearing in both ceremonial and policy addresses, presidential language concerning national identity helps shape the context, and thus sets the terms for more substantive, issue-laden debates. While one cannot measure the impact of this type of rhetoric in ter…
George Bush, , and American Democracy
This article examines the role the ideograph plays in George W. Bush's presidential rhetoric. By strategically wielding throughout his presidency, and by using it to amplify his use of association and dissociation, Bush connects his actions in important ways to the foundational myths of American democracy. In so doing, he provides powerful warrants for his actions, which undermine the very practices he claims to be supporting. That is, by using a…
Addressing the State of the Union
Journal Article Addressing the State of the Union: The Evolution and Impact of the President's Big Speech by Donna R. Hoffman and Alison D. Howard Get access Addressing the State of the Union: The Evolution and Impact of the President’s Big Speechby Donna R. Hoffman and Alison D. Howard. Boulder, CO, Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2006. 213 pp. $49.95. Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Georgia State University Search for other works by this author on: O…
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11
The Politics of Realignment
FDR and Reagan
Journal Article fdr and Reagan: Transformative Presidents with Clashing Visions. By John W. Sloan. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. x, 427 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1615-2.) Get access Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Georgia State UniversityAtlanta, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Pages 268–269, https://doi.org/10.2307/276948…
Bringing Candidacies in from the Cold
Sometimes, nontraditional candidates enter the electoral fray. Because of their minority status, these candidates can be seen as threatening and unsuitable for the presidency. Our analysis shows that the political context of such candidacies is an important factor in candidates' ability to break down the barriers to entry. Ironically, the ability to overcome minority status is greatest when that status is least relevant to the campaign
The Donner Party and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion
There have been numerous studies of the frontier myth as it operated in the early republic and throughout our history. As a result of this work, we know a lot about the frontier myth, its history, elements, and ideological functioning. We know less, however, about how that myth developed when its ideological elements met the empirical realities of western emigration. I argue that four specific cultural fictions—erasure, civilization, community, a…
On Rhetorical Circulation
Research Article| December 01 2012 On Rhetorical Circulation Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2012) 15 (4): 609–612. https://doi.org/10.2307/41940623 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary E. Stuckey; On Rhetorical Circulation. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2012; 15 (4): 609–612. doi: http…
FDR, the Rhetoric of Vision, and the Creation of a National Synoptic State
Throughout his administration, FDR engaged in a complex set of arguments that worked together to defend democracy in general as a viable form of government; American democracy as the highest expression of democratic government; the primacy of the federal government as the most efficient and effective locus of democratic power; and the executive office as the culmination of the form, efficiency, and locus of that power. My specific concern here is…
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