{"product_id":"faking-the-news-what-rhetoric-can-teach-us-about-donald-j-trump-9781845409692","title":"Faking the News: What Rhetoric Can Teach Us about Donald J. Trump","description":"\u003cp\u003eDonald J. Trump's speaking and writing invite passionate reactions -- maybe he's a bluecollar, billionaire hero who speaks the language of the common man or maybe he's a gleefully illiterate, tremendously unqualified idiot. Whatever the case, he was persuasive enough to get himself elected President of the United States and he's been persuasive enough to keep a majority of his supporters behind him. In \u003cem\u003eFaking the News: What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump\u003c\/em\u003e, eleven prominent rhetoric experts explain how Trump's persuasive language works. Specifically the authors explain Trump's persuasive uses of demagoguery, anti-Semitism, alternative facts, populism, charismatic leadership, social media, television, political slogans, visual identity\/image, comedy and humor, and shame and humiliation. \u003cem\u003eFaking the News\u003c\/em\u003e is written for readers who may not know anything about rhetoric, so each chapter explains a feature of rhetoric and uses that lens to illuminate Trump's rhetorical accomplishments. Specifically, about how he has used and still uses language, symbols, and even style to appeal to the people in his various audiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSkinnell, Ryan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eDr. Ryan Skinnell has published a number of books, including \u003cem\u003eConceding Composition: A Crooked History of Composition's Institutional Fortunes\u003c\/em\u003e (Utah State University Press, 2016) and co-edited \u003cem\u003eWhat We Wish We'd Known: Negotiating Graduate School\u003c\/em\u003e (Fountainhead Press, 2015). He is the book review editor for \u003cem\u003ePresent Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society\u003c\/em\u003e and is currently co-editing two books: \u003cem\u003eReinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBureaucracy: A Love Story\u003c\/em\u003e. Dr. Skinnell has also written about Donald Trump's rhetoric for \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eUniversity Press of Colorado Blog\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Imprint Academic (Ips)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50363349401874,"sku":"9781845409692","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8961025d-64e5-4cd6-84fa-10bbb57af955.jpg?v=1728411668","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/faking-the-news-what-rhetoric-can-teach-us-about-donald-j-trump-9781845409692","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}