Politicians and rhetoric : the persuasive power of metaphor /

• Charteris-Black, Jonathan, 1955-

• Metaphor
• Rhetoric -- Political aspects
• Political oratory

• Palgrave Macmillan,

• 0230019811 (pbk.) :
• 9780230019812 (pbk.) :

• 17.99

• Originally published: 2005.
• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p. 228-232.
• Preface - Persuasion, Legitimacy and Leadership - Churchill: Metaphor and Heroic Myth - Martin Luther King: Messianic Myth - Margaret Thatcher and the Myth of Boedicia - Clinton and the Rhetoric of Image Restoration - Tony Blair and Conviction Rhetoric - George W.Bush and the Rhetoric of Moral Accounting - Myth, Metaphor and Leadership - Appendices 1-11: Corpora and Classification of Metaphors - Bibliography - Index

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