ContentsIntroduction: American Rhetoric in the New Deal EraThomas W. Benson0001.No Ordinary Rhetorical President: FDR¿s Speechmaking and Leadership, 1933-1945Vanessa B. Beasley and Deborah Smith-Howell0002.FDR as Family Doctor: Medical Metaphors and the Role of Physician in the Fireside ChatsSuzanne M. Daughton0003.Dictator, Savior, and the Return of Confidence: Text, Context, and Reception in FDR¿s First Inaugural AddressDavis W. Houck and Mihaela Nocasian0004.FSA Photography and New Deal Visual CultureCara Finnegan0005.Eleanor Roosevelt: Social Conscience for the New DealBeth M. Waggenspack0006.The Rhetoric of Social Security and Conservative Backlash: Frances Perkins as Secretary of LaborAnn Atkinson0007.Necessity or Nine Old Men: The Congressional Debate over Franklin D. Roosevelt¿s 1937 Court-Packing PlanTrevor Parry-Giles and Marouf Hasian Jr. 0008.The Thundering Voice of John L. LewisRichard J. Jensen0009.Father Charles E. Coughlin: Delivery, Style in Discourse, and Opinion LeadershipRonald H. Carpenter00010.Reconsidering the Demagoguery of Huey LongRobert S. Iltis00011.Resisting the ¿Inevitability¿ of War: The Catholic Worker Movement and World War IICarol J. Jablonski000Bibliography000About the Authors000Index000