Political Perversion: Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering

by Joshua Gunn

When Trump became president, much of the country was repelled by what they saw as the vulgar spectacle of his ascent, a perversion of the highest office in the land. In his bold, innovative book, Political Perversion, rhetorician Joshua Gunn argues that this "mean-spirited turn" in American politics (of which Trump is the paragon) is best understood as a structural perversion in our common culture, on a continuum with infantile and "gotcha"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022671344X
• ISBN13: 9780226713441
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"