Jennifer Mercieca Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Read my column @ResoluteSquare. Fascism is for losers.

Common Sense
Thomas Paine
"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
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Essay on Criticism: Edited with Introduction and Notes
Alexander Pope
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
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The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion--Our Social Skin
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
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
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Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity
Ersula J. Ore
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
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Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding
David C. Hendrickson
For even more, see note 12 here Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding: https://t.co/OazvDcIwQ6
Paperback, 2003
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Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-1945
Julie V. Gottlieb
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
An Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope
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
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The Ethics of Rhetoric
Richard M. Weaver
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
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Common Sense
Paine Thomas
"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
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Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Noam Chomsky
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
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