User:Pres rhet/David Zarefsky

David Zarefsky is the Owen C. Coon professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University in the School of Communication. His research addresses the history and criticism of U.S. public discourse, argumentation theory, rhetorical criticism, and public speaking. He is a past president of the National Communication Association and the Rhetoric Society of America. He received his BS, MA, and PhD from Northwestern University in the department of Communication Studies.

Publications
Articles and Book Chapters
 * “The Eloquent President/Lincoln’s Speeches Reconsidered.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 10 (2007): 539-544.
 * “Making the Case for War: Colin Powell at the United Nations,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 10 (Summer 2007), 275-302.
 * “Strategic Maneuvering through Persuasive Definitions: Implications for Dialectic and Rhetoric,” Argumentation, 20 (2006), 399-416.
 * "Presidential Rhetoric and the Power of Definition.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 34 (2004): 607-619.
 * “The Continuing Fascination with Lincoln.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 6 (2003): 337-370.
 * “Henry Clay and the Election of 1844: The Limits of a Rhetoric of Compromise.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 6 (2003): 79-96.
 * “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Revisited: The Evolution of Public Argument.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 72 (1986): 162-184.
 * “The Great Society as Rhetoric Proposition.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 65 (1979): 364-379.
 * “President Johnson’s War on Poverty: The Rhetoric of Three “Establishment” Movements.” Communication Monographs 44 (1977): 352-374.

Book Chapters
 * “George W. Bush Discovers Rhetoric: September 20, 2001, and the U.S. Response to Terrorism.” In The Ethos of Rhetoric, ed. Michael J. Hyde. Greenville: University of South Carolina Press, 2004, 136-155.
 * “The State of the Art in Public Address Scholarship.” In Texts in Context: Critical Dialogues on Significant Episodes in American Political Rhetoric, edited by Michael Leff and Fred Kaufeld. Davis: Hermagoras Press, 1989.

Books
 * Sizing Up Rhetoric, co-edited with Elizabeth Benacka (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2008).
 * Public Speaking: Strategies for Success, 5th ed. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2008).
 * President Johnson's War on Poverty: Rhetoric and History (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2005).