Inventing a Voice: The Rhetoric of American First Ladies of the Twentieth Century - Paperback

by Molly Meijer Wertheimer (Editor), Karrin Vasby Anderson (Contribution by), Ann J. Atkinson (Contribution by)

Inventing a Voice is a comprehensive work on the lives and communication of twentieth-century first ladies. Using a rhetorical framework, the contributors look at the speaking, writing, media coverage and interactions, and visual rhetoric of American first ladies from Ida Saxton McKinley to Laura Bush.

Author Biography

Molly Meijer Wertheimer is professor of speech communications and affiliate associate professor of women's studies at Pennsylvania State University, Hazelton.