Twentieth-Century Roots of Rhetorical Studies

JIM A. KUYPERS is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Office of Speech at Dartmouth College. He has authored Presidential Crisis Rhetoric and the Press in a Post-Cold War World (Praeger, 1997) and Media Manipulation of Controversial Issues (forthcoming). He is a former co-editor for the American Communication Journal. His research interests include political communication, meta-criticism, and the moral/poetic use of language.

ANDREW KING is Professor and Chair of the Department of Speech Communication at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Postmodern Political Communication and Power and Communication. He is the former editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech and the Southern Communication Journal. Professor King's academic interests lie in the areas of communication and power, and medieval and Renaissance rhetorical theory.