Background
Martin J. Medhurst was born on October 15, 1952 in Alton, Illinois, United States. He is the son of Maurice A. Medhurst, a company president, and Wilma L. Medhurst.
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Martin J. Medhurst received a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College in 1974.
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Martin J. Medhurst received a Master of Arts from Northern Illinois University in 1975.
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Martin J. Medhurst received a Ph.D. from Penn State University in 1980.
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Cold War Rhetoric is the first book in over twenty years to bring a sustained rhetorical critique to bear on central texts of the Cold War. The rhetorical texts that are the subject of this book include speeches by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, the Murrow- McCarthy confrontation on CBS, the speeches and writings of peace advocates, and the recurring theme of unAmericanism as it has been expressed in various media throughout the Cold War years. Each of the authors brings to his texts a particular approach to rhetorical criticism - strategic, metaphorical, or ideological. Each provides an introductory chapter on methodology that explains the assumptions and strengths of their particular approach.
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1990
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For George H. W. Bush, the distinction between campaigning (“politics”) and governing (“principles”) was crucial. Once in office, he abandoned his campaign mode and with it the rhetorical strategies that brought electoral success. Not recognizing the crucial importance of rhetoric to policy formation and implementation, Bush forfeited the resources of the bully pulpit and paid the price of electoral defeat. In this first-ever analysis of Bush’s rhetoric to draw on the archives of the Bush Presidential Library, scholars explore eight major events or topics associated with his presidency: the first Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin wall, the “New World Order,” Bush’s “education presidency,” his environmental stance, the “vision thing,” and the influence of the Religious Right.
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2006
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Culminating a decade of conferences that have explored presidential speech, The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric assesses progress and suggests directions for both the practice of presidential speech and its study. In Part One, following an analytic review of the field by Martin Medhurst, contributors address the state of the art in their own areas of expertise. Roderick P. Hart then summarizes their work in the course of his rebuttal of an argument made by political scientist George Edwards: that presidential rhetoric lacks political impact. Part Two of the volume consists of the forward-looking reports of six task forces, comprising more than forty scholars, charged with outlining the likely future course of presidential rhetoric, as well as the major questions scholars should ask about it and the tools at their disposal. The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric will serve as a pivotal work for students and scholars of public discourse and the presidency who seek to understand the shifting landscape of American political leadership.
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2008
(Boldly breaking the mold of previous anthologies, Words o...)
Boldly breaking the mold of previous anthologies, Words of a Century: The Top 100 American Speeches, 1900-1999 contains the complete texts of the best American speeches of the twentieth century as delivered to their immediate audiences. It features a remarkable array of speakers, from Woodrow Wilson, Clarence Darrow, and Carrie Chapman Catt to Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, and Barbara Jordan.
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2009
Martin J. Medhurst was born on October 15, 1952 in Alton, Illinois, United States. He is the son of Maurice A. Medhurst, a company president, and Wilma L. Medhurst.
Martin J. Medhurst received the Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College in 1974, the Master of Arts from Northern Illinois University in 1975, and the Ph.D. from Penn State University in 1980.
Martin J. Medhurst started his teaching career in 1979 as an assistant professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Davis, where he was promoted to an associate professor with tenure in 1985. Medhurst became an associate professor of speech communication at Texas A&M University in 1988, where he was promoted to a full professor in 1991. He joined the faculty at Baylor University as Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Communication in 2003.
Besides, he is the author or editor of thirteen books, including Rhetorical Dimensions in Media: A Critical Casebook (1984, with Thomas W. Benson), Cold War Rhetoric: Strategy, Metaphor, and Ideology (1990, with Robert L. Ivie, Philip Wander, and Robert L. Scott), Communication & the Culture of Technology (1990, with Alberto Gonzalez and Tarla Rai Peterson), Landmark Essays on American Public Address (1993), Dwight D. Eisenhower: Strategic Communicator (1993), Eisenhower’s War of Words: Rhetoric and Leadership (1994), Beyond the Rhetorical Presidency (1996), Critical Reflections on the Cold War (2000, with H.W. Brands), Presidential Speechwriting (2003, with Kurt Ritter), The Rhetorical Presidency of George H. W. Bush (2006), The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric (2008, with James Arnt Aune), Before the Rhetorical Presidency (2008), and Words of a Century (2009, with Stephen E. Lucas).
Medhurst is a frequent contributor to communication journals, including The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Monographs, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Communication Education, Communication Quarterly, Communication Studies, Western Journal of Communication, and the Southern Communication Journal, among other disciplinary outlets. He has also contributed to such interdisciplinary journals as Armed Forces & Society, Journal of Church and State, Studies in Visual Communication, and Presidential Studies Quarterly. He has published more than 100 articles and chapters.
Additionally, Medhurst is the founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal Rhetoric & Public Affairs and of the scholarly book series of the same title, both published by Michigan State University Press. From 1987 to 1989, Medhurst served as the Book Review Editor of The Quarterly Journal of Speech. He has served on the editorial boards of Communication Monographs, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Western Journal of Communication, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Communication Quarterly, and as a special guest editor for Communication Education.
From 1996 to 2007, he served as general editor for the Presidential Rhetoric Series at Texas A&M University Press and from 2004 to 2012 as editor of the Rhetoric and Religion Series at Baylor University Press. He currently serves as the general editor of the ten volume series, A Rhetorical History of the United States, published by Michigan State University Press.
(Boldly breaking the mold of previous anthologies, Words o...)
2009(Culminating a decade of conferences that have explored pr...)
2008(Cold War Rhetoric is the first book in over twenty years ...)
1990(For George H. W. Bush, the distinction between campaignin...)
2006Martin J. Medhurst has been a member of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, National Communication Association, Religious Speech Communication Association (member of executive committee), Rhetoric Society of America, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Western States Communication Association, and Southern States Communication Association.
Martin J. Medhurst was married to Margaret M. Gentzel, but they divorced in 1988. He then married Laurel A. Canglose on October 31, 1989.
Medhurst has three children - Monica, James Snedden, and Julia Marie.