Patricia L. Dunmire is a Professor of Rhetoric & Composition at Kent State University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in argumentation and discourse studies. Using a critical discourse studies approach, her work examines the discursive construal and rhetorical function of projections of the future within political discourse. Her work has been published in several journals, including Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse & Society, and The Journal of Language and Politics, as well as in edited volumes, and she is the author of Projecting the Future through Political Discourse.

• Preface


• Chapter 1 Futurity National Identity and Foreign Policy Discourse


• Chapter 2 America's Most Precious Resource


• Chapter 3 Vistas to the Future


• Chapter 4 New Vistas of Opportunity


• Chapter 5 Alerting America


• Chapter 6 From the American Century to the End of History: An American Future of Democratic Peace


• Chapter 7 The Future of American Exceptionalism


• References

The Great Nation of Futurity examines the rhetoric of American exceptionalism--the idea that the United States is an exemplary nation with a unique, divinely sanctioned role--within Cold War foreign policy discourse. Taking a discourse analytic approach, Patricia L. Dunmire focuses specifically on how images and visions of the future within exceptionalist rhetoric are used to promote and endorse the nation's foreign policy during the Cold War.