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Texts for Rhetorical Analysis

 

 

All of the following texts are approved for your Rhetorical Analysis Project. If you'd like to use another text, e-mail me with details to receive permission.

 


 

 

Brian C. Anderson: South Park Conservatives

Fred Barnes: Rebel in Chief

Michael Barone: Hard America, Soft America

David Brooks: On Paradise Drive

Jimmy Carter: Our Endagered Values

 

 

Robert J. Cavalier: The Impact of the Internet on Our Moral Lives

Joanne B. Ciulla: The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work

Jerome R. Corsi: The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality

Ann Coulter: Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What's Left of It

Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion

Jared Diamond: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Suceed

 

 

Hubert L. Dreyfus: On the Internet

Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Ted C. Fishman: China, Inc.

Thomas Frank: What's the Matter with Kansas?

Franklin Foer: How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

Al Franken: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Harry G. Frankfurt: On Bullshit

Michael Lewis: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Milton Friedman: Capitalism and Freedom

Thomas L. Friedman: The World is Flat

Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point

Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth

Mark Hertsgaard: The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fasciniates and Infuriates the World

Hugh Hewitt: Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Our World

 

James Hughes Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond To The Redesigned Human Of The Future 

Gwen Ifill: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama

The Iraq Study Group: The Iraq Study Group Report

 

 

Steven Johnson: Everything Bad is Good for You

Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Chuck Klosterman: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

David Kuo: Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction

Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity is Near

Osama bin Laden: Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden

George Lakoff: Moral Politics

Mark R. Levin: Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America

Steven D. Levitt Freakonomics

Vill Maher: New Rules

Michelle Malkin: Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild

Matt Mason: The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism

John McCain: Character is Destiny

Zell Miller: A Deficit of Decency

Rebakah Nathan: My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

 

Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club: A Novel

Melanie Phillips: Londonistan

Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma

Virginia Postrel: The Substance of Style

Bill O'Reilly: The O'Reilly Factor for Kids

Glenn Reynolds: An Army of Davids

Frank Rich: The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina

Douglas Rushkoff: Life Inc.  How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take it Back

Jeffrey Sachs: The End of Poverty

George S. Schuyler: Black No More: A Novel

Barry Schwartz: The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less

T. Sharpley-Whiting: Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women

Thomas Sowell: Black Rednecks and White Liberals

John Steinbeck: America and Americans

Thomas J. Sugrue: The Origins of Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit

James Surowiecki: The Wisdom of Crowds

Ron Suskind: The One Percent Doctrine

Jean M. Twenge: Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before

 

 

Jack Welch: Winning

Jamie Whyte: Crimes Against Logic

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (online text)

Gordon S. Wood: Revolutionary Characters

Elizabeth Wurtzel: Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Carlo Petrini: Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And...

Paul Roberts: The End of Food

Paul Roberts: The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World

The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq

Bing West: The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq

Peter W. Galbraith:  The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End

Michael Yon: Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New 'Greatest Generation' of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope

Naomi Klein:  No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs

Joel Bakan: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power 

 

 

Comments (2)

Paul Elden said

at 10:47 am on Sep 27, 2011

I love how the link to Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them is just a picture of McCain :P

mike said

at 11:46 am on Sep 27, 2011

That is hilarious! Love it!

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