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This book analyzes the thiry-six political party conventions since 1948 as rhetorical entities with goals often epideictic, constitutive, and even deliberative. Crucial in meeting (and sometimes not) these goals are speeches, demonstrations, and off-camera discussions at each convention.
Preface
Chapter One - Political Party Conventions: History and Criticism
Chapter Two - 1948
Chapter Three - 1952
Chapter Four - 1956
Chapter Five - 1960
Chapter Six - 1964
Chapter Seven - 1968
Chapter Eight - 1972
Chapter Nine - 1976
Chapter Ten - 1980
Chapter Eleven - 1984
Chapter Twelve - 1988
Chapter Thirteen-1992
Chapter Fourteen-1996
Chapter Fifteen - 2000
Chapter Sixteen - 2004
Chapter Seventeen - 2008
Chapter Eighteen - 2012
Chapter Nineteen - 2016
Chapter Twenty -- Conclusions
Bibliography
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