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THE VULCAN RHETORIC OF CRISIS: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORS AND THE
WAR IN IRAQ
by
Craig Arthur Hayden
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(COMMUNICATION)
May 2007
Copyright 2007 Craig Arthur Hayden
Object Description
| Title | The Vulcan rhetoric of crisis: presidential advisors and the War in Iraq |
| Author | Hayden, Craig Arthur |
| Author email | hayden@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Communication |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-01-18 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-04-20 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Goodnight, G. Thomas |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hollihan, Thomas Lamy, Steven |
| Abstract | This dissertation is a study of the crisis rhetoric employed by presidential advisors during the lead-up to the war in Iraq in 2003. The inquiry operates from the premise that these advisors engaged in a rhetorical movement to forward the agenda of war against Iraq. The movement concept is presented to situate presidential advisors in the domain of crisis rhetoric studies. The dissertation investigates this rhetorical movement through the public arguments of three key presidential advisors: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Vice President Richard Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell. The study examines how these advisors played crucial and distinct roles in the rhetorical campaign that leveraged access to national media outlets and featured pivotal speeches in support of a war. These advisors elaborated a comprehensive policy scene of crisis, increased the imminence of possible threat, and legitimated the arguments for war through appeals to an international audience. These advisors are shown to extend the implications of presidential arguments, defend the president against criticism, and augment the credibility of the administration's arguments for war. The movement arguments are presented as a systematic strategy of epideictic threat amplification that discouraged debate while consolidating support for the Iraq war policy. |
| Keyword | crisis rhetoric; presidential advisors; rhetorical movement |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m431 |
| Rights | Hayden, Craig Arthur |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Hayden-20070420 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume48/etd-Hayden-20070420.pdf |
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| Full text | THE VULCAN RHETORIC OF CRISIS: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORS AND THE WAR IN IRAQ by Craig Arthur Hayden A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMMUNICATION) May 2007 Copyright 2007 Craig Arthur Hayden |
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