Green Talk in the White House

by Peterson, Tarla Rai

• ISBN13: 9781585444151
• ISBN10: 1585444154
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Environmental Communication Meets Presidential
Rhetoric, Tarla Rai Peterson	3	(32)
Part I Environmental Rhetoric and the New Frontier	35	(48)
1. Preaching Conservation: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of Civil Religion,
Leroy G. Dorsey	37	(25)
2. Presidential Public Policy and Conservation: W.J. McGee and the People,
Christine Oravec	62	(21)
Part II Environmental Rhetoric and Political Pragmatism	83	(72)
3. The President and the Reformer: Rhetoric, Politics, and the Environment under Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
Suzanne M. Daughton and Vanessa B. Beasley	85	(28)
4. Conservative Politics and the Politics of Conservation: Richard Nixon and the Environmental Protection Agency,
Micheal R. Vickery	113	(21)
5. Conservation Reconsidered: Environmental Politics, Rhetoric, and the Reagan Revolution,
C. Brant Short	134	(21)
Part III The Environmental President Who Wasn't	155	(76)
6. The (Re)Making of the "Environmental President": Clinton/Gore and the Rhetoric of U.S. Environmental Politics, 1992-1996,
J. Robert Cox	157	(24)
7. Colliding Ironies and Clinton's Salvage Rider Rhetoric in the Northwest Timber Controversy,
Mark P. Moore	181	(26)
8. "We're Coming Clean": Clinton, Public Advocacy, and the Human Radiation Experiments,
David Henry	207	(24)
Part IV Presidential Rhetoric and Environmental Governance for the Twenty-first Century	231	(57)
9. Topical Analysis and the Problem of Judgment in Environmental Disputes: The Case of Sustainable Forestry in New Hampshire,
Lawrence J. Prelli	233	(25)
10. Global Gridlock: The American Presidency and the Framing of International Environmentalism, 1988-2000,
Martin Carcasson	258	(30)
Contributors	288	(1)
Index	289