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New Titles in Political Communication

Leadership

Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America by William H. Chafe. Harvard University Press, November 2005.

Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia by Robert Edwin Herzstein. Cambridge University Press, July 2005.

The Mediated Presidency: Television News and Presidential Governance by Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., August 2005.

First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age by Maurine H. Beasley. Northwestern University Press, November 2005.


Citizenship and the Public Sphere

People and Their Opinions by Richard Sobel and Eric Shiraev. Longman, August, 2005.

Democracy, Inc.: The Press and Law in the Corporate Rationalization of the Public Sphere by David S. Allen. University of Illinois Press, July 2005.

The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle by T. V. Reed. University of Minnesota Press, July 2005.

Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis by Richard Delgado. NYU Press, November 2005

Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere, edited by Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors. Indiana University Press, forthcoming.

Community Media: People, Places, and Communication Technologies by Kevin Howley. Cambridge University Press, May 2005.

Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines by Carolyn Kitch. University of North Carolina Press, September 2005.


Mass Media

Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America by Diana Kendall. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., July 2005.

Campaigning for Hearts and Minds: How Emotional Appeals in Political Ads Work by Ted Brader. The University of Chicago Press, Fall 2005.

New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen by Philip N. Howard. Cambridge University Press, October 2005.

Shooting the Truth: The Rise of American Political Documentaries by James McEnteer. Praeger Publishers, December 2005.

Listener Supported: The Culture and History of Public Radio by Jack W. Mitchell. Praeger Publishers, March 2005.

Mudslingers: The Top 25 Negative Political Campaigns of All Time by Kerwin C. Swint. Praeger Publishers. Publication Date: 12/30/2005.

Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays edited by Garth Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell. SAGE Publications, November 2005.

Cultural Production in a Digital Age by Eric Klinenberg. SAGE Publications, June 2005.

Freedom and Entertainment: Rating the Movies in an Age of New Media by Stephen Vaughn. Cambridge University Press, October 2005.

Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against the Media by Craig Crawford. Rowman Littlefield Publishers, Inc., August 2005.

Media & Minorities: The Politics of Race in News and Entertainment by Stephanie Greco Larson. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., August 2005.

Radio’s Intimate Public: Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated Democracy by Jason Loviglio. University of Minnesota Press, November 2005.

The Evolution of American Investigative Journalism by James L. Aucoin. University of Missouri Press, December 2005.


Political Culture, History and Theory

A Kinder, Gentler America: Melancholia and the Mythical 1950s by Mary Caputi. University of Minnesota Press, November 2005.

Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution, and Writing, A-Z [Three Volumes] edited by M. Keith Booker. Greenwood Press. Publication Date: 9/30/2005.

Punchlines: The Case for Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Humor by Leon Rappoport. Praeger Publishers, November, 2005.

Political Violence and Terror in Modern America: A Chronology by Christopher Hewitt. Praeger Security International Reference. Publication Date: 9/30/2005.

Religion, Power and Violence: Expression of Politics in Contemporary Times edited by Ram Puniyani. SAGE Publications, July 2005.

The Authoritarian Dynamic by Karen Stenner. Cambridge University Press, August 2005.

American Cold War Culture edited by Douglas Field. Edinburgh University Press, September 2005.

Presidents in Culture: The Meaning of Presidential Communication by David Michael Ryfe. Peter Lang Publishing, 2005.


American Government and Politics

The Talk of the Party: Political Labels, Symbolic Capital, and American Life by Sharon E. Jarvis. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., July 2005.

The 2004 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective, edited by Robert E. Denton, Jr. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., August 2005.

Securing America's Future: National Strategy in the Information Age by Daniel M. Gerstein. Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth, September 2005.

Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age by Alasdair Roberts. Cambridge University Press, December 2005.

The Torture Debate in America edited by Karen J. Greenberg. Cambridge University Press, September 2005.

Primetime Politics: The Truth about Conservative Lies, Corporate Control, and Television Culture by Philip Green. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., August 2005.

Primaries: Defining the Battle in New Hampshire (Video). Kathleen Kendall, Executive Producer. Available from Films for the Humanities and Sciences.

Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: How Local TV Broadcasters Exert Political Power by J. H. Snider. iUniverse, Inc., April 2005.


War, Terrorism and International Politics

Terror, Culture, Politics: Rethinking 9/11, edited by Daniel J. Sherman and Terry Nardin. Indiana University Press, forthcoming.

Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Understanding Threats and Responses in the Post-9/11 World by Brigitte Lebens Nacos. Longman, July 2005.

The "Great Satan" vs. the "Mad Mullahs": How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other by William O. Beeman. Praeger Publishers, September 2005.

The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq edited by Gary Rosen. Cambridge University Press, September 2005.


International Media and Culture

Imagi-Nations and Borderless Television: Media, Culture and Politics Across Asia by Amos Owen Thomas. SAGE Publications, September 2005.

International News in the Twenty–First Century, edited by Chris Paterson and Annabelle Sreberny. Indiana University Press, July 2005.


Editor: David Ryfe , Middle Tennessee State University. Last Updated: December 27, 2005