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Jennifer Mercieca Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Read my column @ResoluteSquare. Fascism is for losers.

14 books
Book Cover for: Common Sense, Thomas Paine

Common Sense

Thomas Paine
Jennifer MerciecaJennifer Mercieca

"However it is needless to spend much time in exposing the folly of hereditary right; if there are any so weak as to believe it, let them promiscuously worship the Ass and the Lion, and welcome." Thomas Paine, Common Sense (of which they apparently have none) https://t.co/zfmDteqWin

Paperback, 2004

$19.75$9.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Essay on Criticism: Edited with Introduction and Notes, Alexander Pope

Essay on Criticism: Edited with Introduction and Notes

Alexander Pope
Jennifer MerciecaJennifer Mercieca

Blessed with a taste exact, yet unconfined; A knowledge both of books and human kind; Generous converse; a soul exempt from pride; And love to praise, with reason on his side? (Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism)

Paperback, 2014

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion--Our Social Skin, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion--Our Social Skin

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
Jennifer MerciecaJennifer Mercieca

The manufacture of consent model worked to atomize us (as Jay says) or to keep us “atomized and segregated and alone” (as Chomsky says). Rendering citizens passive spectators created what political communication expert Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann called the “spiral of silence”—

Paperback, 1993

$33.00$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity, Ersula J. Ore

Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity

Ersula J. Ore
Jennifer MerciecaJennifer Mercieca

Scholars of rhetoric & violence: @HunttheDevil (Bob Ivie especially on war rhetoric) @rhosa (Rosa Eberly especially on gun violence) @ErsulaOre (Ersula Ore especially on racial violence & lynching) More her in the Quarterly Journal of Speech: https://t.co/vHZ0AbLROp

Hardcover, 2019

$110.00$85.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding, David C. Hendrickson

Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding

David C. Hendrickson
Jennifer MerciecaJennifer Mercieca

For even more, see note 12 here Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding: https://t.co/OazvDcIwQ6

Paperback, 2003

$37.99$19.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-1945, Julie V. Gottlieb

Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-1945

Julie V. Gottlieb
Jennifer MerciecaJennifer Mercieca

I see she continues with her obsession with the domestic sphere, like a good fascist woman. Book is Feminine Fascism, Julie Gottlieb. https://t.co/7hZIkbNouw

Paperback, 2021

$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: An Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism

Alexander Pope
Jennifer MerciecaJennifer Mercieca

Blessed with a taste exact, yet unconfined; A knowledge both of books and human kind; Generous converse; a soul exempt from pride; And love to praise, with reason on his side? (Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism)

Paperback, 2014

$5.99$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Ethics of Rhetoric, Richard M. Weaver

The Ethics of Rhetoric

Richard M. Weaver
Jennifer MerciecaJennifer Mercieca

It’s a rhetoric term, coined by Richard Weaver (not me!) in his discussion of “ultimate terms” in The Ethics of Rhetoric. Weaver wrote about God terms (unquestionably good) and Devil terms (unquestionably bad). Neither invite debate.

Paperback, 2011

$31.95$15.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Common Sense

Paine Thomas
Jennifer MerciecaJennifer Mercieca

"However it is needless to spend much time in exposing the folly of hereditary right; if there are any so weak as to believe it, let them promiscuously worship the Ass and the Lion, and welcome." Thomas Paine, Common Sense (of which they apparently have none) https://t.co/zfmDteqWin

Paperback, 2017

$8.00$4.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, Noam Chomsky

Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

Noam Chomsky
Jennifer MerciecaJennifer Mercieca

Highly recommend you read this Chomsky book about the first Iraq war prop, my students read it and it always 🤯. Here's the full pdf Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda: https://t.co/16GEiqYsv5

Paperback, 2002

$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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