Bøger af Davis W. Houck

Examines how different memory texts - filmic, landscape, presidential speech, and museums - function both to bolster and question the centrality of murdered white men in the legacy of Freedom Summer.

Employing never-before-used historical materials, the authors of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press reveal how Mississippi journalists both expressed and shaped public opinion in the aftermath of the 1955 Emmett Till murder.

Franklin Roosevelt took great care to hide his polio-induced lameness. This book is an analysis of the silences surrounding Roosevelt's disability, the words he used to portray himself and his policies as powerful and health-giving, and the methods he used to maximise the appearance of strength.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - the famous words from Franklin Roosevelt's first inaugural address. This study focuses primarily on the speech and its drafting (principally by Raymond Moley). Houck also tells of its delivery and the responses of those who were inspired by it.

This new anthology rounds out Ronald Reagan's rhetorical persona and fills a major gap in the literature about the man by offering an unbiased and a multi-dimensional picture of his public speeches during all phases of his political life.