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Reagan's Soviet Rhetoric: Telling the Soviet Redemption Story

Reagan's Soviet Rhetoric: Telling the Soviet Redemption Story

Lavoie, Mark

Hardcover

General Reference20th Century United States HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1793647984
ISBN13: 9781793647986
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Nov 17 2021
Pages: 141
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How did Ronald Reagan go from calling the Soviet Union an evil empire in his first term as president to saying the US had forged a satisfying new closeness with the Soviets by the end of his second term? In Reagan's Soviet Rhetoric: Telling the Soviet Redemption Story, rhetorical scholar Mark LaVoie examines the ways Reagan negotiated his shift from a vehemently anti-communist discourse to a rhetoric of guarded optimism about the future of US-Soviet relations that ultimately revealed a Soviet redemption narrative. Following Reagan's Soviet rhetoric from his 1947 testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee to his Farewell Address in 1989, LaVoie considers the President's use of Soviet/Nazi analogy, historical narrative, reciprocity, and other rhetorical strategies in creating the narrative. Scholars and students of rhetoric, history, and international relations will find this book particularly interesting.

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