Absence of National Feeling


Education Debates in the Reconstruction Congress

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By Michael J. Steudeman
Imprint: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
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PAPERBACK
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229 x 152 mm
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Pages:
240

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Michael J. Steudeman is assistant professor of rhetoric at Penn State University. He is editor of Teaching Demagoguery and Democracy: Rhetorical Pedagogy in Polarized Times, and his work has appeared in such publications as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and History of Education Quarterly.

Steudeman has authored an insightful, thoughtful, and careful examination of the ways rhetoric, race, memory, politics, and culture affectively cohered to result in educational policies that were, finally, disappointingly tepid and callous in their substance. The richness of this book resides in the seriousness with which the author takes up the Congressional debates related to public education, reading these through a sophisticated rhetorical lens informed by notions of affect. The study is especially astute in the ways it mines the consequences of these debates for national reconciliation and universal citizenship." - Jeff Kurtz, professor of communication at Denison University

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