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ZEN IN THE ART OF RHETORIC: AN INQUIRY INTO COHERENCE. By Mark Lawrence McPhail. New York: State University of New York Press. 1996; pp. v + 220. $19.95

AFTER POSTMODERNISM: RECONSTRUCTING IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE. Ed. By Herbert W. Simons and Michael Billig. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Pub. 1994; pp. x + 258. $69.95; paper $19.95

PRIME‐TIME FEMINISM: TELEVISION, MEDIA CULTURE, AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT SINCE 1970. By Bonnie J. Dow. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996; pp. xxvi + 224. $39.95; paper $17.50.

THE CULTURAL PRISON: DISCOURSE, PRISONERS, AND PUNISHMENT. By John M. Sloop. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996; pp. viii + 244. $39.95.

BECOMING CITIZENS IN THE AGE OF TELEVISION: HOW AMERICANS CHALLENGED THE MEDIA AND SEIZED INITIATIVE DURING THE IRAN‐CONTRA DEBATE. By David P. Thelen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. pp. x + 244. $55.00; paper $14.95.

RAPE ON TRIAL: HOW THE MASS MEDIA CONSTRUCT LEGAL REFORM AND SOCIAL CHANGE. By Lisa M. Cuklanz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996; pp. vii + 135. $28.95; paper $12.95.

LAW'S STORIES: NARRATIVE AND RHETORIC IN THE LAW. Edited by Peter Brooks and Paul Gewirtz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996; pp. vii + 290. $26.00.

POST‐REALISM: THE RHETORICAL TURN IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. Edited by Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996; pp. vii + 429. $35.95; paper $24.95.

DEFINING SCIENCE: A RHETORIC OF DEMARCATION. By Charles Alan Taylor. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996; pp vii + 292. $53.00; paper $22.95.

IM/PARTIAL SCIENCE: GENDER IDEOLOGY IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. By Bonnie B. Spanier. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1995; pp. xi + 207. $29.95; paper $14.95.

KENNETH BURKE: RHETORIC, SUBJECTIVITY, POSTMODERNISM. By Robert Wess. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996; pp. xxi + 262. $54.95; paper $18.95.

THE GIFT OF DEATH. By Jacques Derrida. Trans. David Wills. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995; $18.95.

AUGUSTINE AND THE LIMITS OF POLITICS. By Jean Bethke Elshtain. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995; pp. xiv + 143. $21.95.

RHETORIC, SOPHISTRY, PRAGMATISM. Edited by Steven Mailloux. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995; pp.xii + 251. $54.95; paper $16.95.

THE RHETORIC OF REASON: WRITING AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF ARGUMENT. By James Crosswhite. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. pp. xii + 329. $58.00; paper $24.95

ESSAYS ON ARISTOTLE'S RHETORIC. Edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty. Philosophical Traditions 6. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1996; pp. xxiii + 441. $50.00; paper $19.95.

RHETORIC AS PEDAGOGY: ITS HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, AND PRACTICE; ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JAMES J. MURPHY. Edited by Winifred Bryan Homer and Michael Leff. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 1995; pp. xvi + 337. $69.95; paper $34.50.

VOICING AMERICA: LANGUAGE, LITERARY FORM, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE UNITED STATES. By Christopher Looby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996; pp. xi + 287. $29.95.

THE LANGUAGE OF DEMOCRACY: POLITICAL RHETORIC IN THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN, 1790–1900. By Andrew W. Robertson. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995; pp. xv + 264. $35.00.

THE CONUNDRUM OF CLASS: PUBLIC DISCOURSE ON THE SOCIAL ORDER IN AMERICA. By Martin J. Burke. Chicago &; London: The University of Chicago Press, 1995; pp. xvii + 303. $47.50; paper $16.95.

“IN A PERILOUS HOUR”: THE PUBLIC ADDRESS OFJOHN F. KENNEDY. By Steven R. Goldzwig and George N. Dionisopoulos. Westport: Greenwood Publishing, 1995; pp. xv + 219. $59.95.

THE END OF VICTORY CULTURE: COLD WAR AMERICA AND THE DISILLUSIONING OF A GENERATION. By Tom Engelhardt. New York: Basic Books, 1995; pp. iii + 351. $29.95; paper, $14.00.

I'VE GOT THE LIGHT OF FREEDOM: THE ORGANIZING TRADITION AND THE MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM STRUGGLE. By Charles M. Payne. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995; pp. xiii + 525. $28.00; paper $16.95.

AFRICAN‐AMERICAN ORATORS: A BIO‐CRITICAL SOURCEBOOK. Edited by Richard W. Leeman. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996; pp. xxv + 452. $95.00.