BARACK OBAMA, “REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE SHOOTING IN TUCSON, ARIZONA” (12 JANUARY 2001)

Readings

Amsden, Brian. “Dimensions of Temporality in President Obama’s Tucson Memorial Address.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 17 (2014): 455-476.

Aune, James Arnt, and Martin J. Medhurst, eds. The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2008.

Beasley, Vanessa B. You, the People: American National Identity in Presidential Rhetoric. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2004.

Black, Edwin. Rhetorical Questions: Studies of Public Discourse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and the Genres of Governance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

—. Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Words. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Cohen, Jeffrey E. Presidential Responsiveness and Public Policy-Making: The Public and the Policies that Presidents Choose. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Dorsey, Leroy G., ed. The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2002.

Dow, Bonnie J. “The Function of Epideictic and Deliberative Strategies in Presidential Crisis Rhetoric.” Western Journal of Speech Communication 53 (1989): 294-317.

Engels, Jeremy. “The Rhetoric of Violence: Sarah Palin’s Response to the Tucson Shooting.”

symplokē  20 (2012): 121-138.

Frank, David A. “Facing Moloch: Barack Obama’s National Eulogies and Gun Violence.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 17 (2014): 653-678.

Giffords, Gabrielle. Scripps College Commencement. Scripps College, 17 May 2009, http://www.scrippscollege.edu/commencement/speeches/gabrielle-giffords-93.

Giffords, Gabrielle and Mark Kelly, with Jeffrey Zaslow. Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope. New York: Scribner, 2011.

Han, Lori Cox, and Diane J. Heith. In the Public Domain: Presidents and the Challenges of Public Leadership. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005.

Sheard, Cynthia. “The Public Value of Epideictic Rhetoric.” College English 58 (1996): 765-794.

Stuckey, Mary E., and Sean Patrick O’Rourke. “Civility, Democracy, and National Politics.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 17(2014): 711-736.

Terrill, Robert. Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2015.

Zarefsky, David. “Presidential Rhetoric and the Power of Definition.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 34 (2004): 607–19.

Audio-Visual Materials

Maitland, Keith, dir. Tower. Kino Lorber Studio, 2016. Video Recording.

Moore, Michael. Bowling for Columbine. MGM Home Entertainment, 2002. Video Recording.

Online Resources

American Public Health Association on gun violence: https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/gun-violence.

Captain Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords at the Democratic National Convention. July 27, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF5kcPktVTM.

Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. http://lawcenter.giffords.org/.

Gun Violence Archive. http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/.

Mothers in Charge. http://www.mothersincharge.org/.

“President Obama on the Arizona Attack and Representative Giffords.” Jan. 8, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7okzxFYR710.

“Presidential Speeches at Times of National Tragedy,” New York Times, Jan. 12, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/13/us/20110113_CONSOLATION_INTERACTIVE.html.

The Trace.  https://www.thetrace.org/