Texts for Rhetorical Analysis
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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
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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