David Zarefsky

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David Zarefsky is affiliated with the following schools: Northwestern University , Northwestern University, University of Iowa

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#14

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#1071

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#1360

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David Zarefsky's Degrees

PhD Communication Studies University of Iowa
Masters Speech Communication University of Iowa
Bachelors Speech Northwestern University

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According to Wikipedia, David H. Zarefsky is an American communication scholar with research specialties in rhetorical history and criticism. He is professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He is a past president of the National Communication Association and the Rhetoric Society of America. Among his publications are six books and over 70 scholarly articles concerned with American public discourse , argumentation, rhetorical criticism, and public speaking are books on the Lincoln-Douglas debates and on the rhetoric of the war on poverty during the Johnson administration. His lectures on argumentation and rhetoric can be heard in a course for The Teaching Company.

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David Zarefsky's Published Works

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Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory : A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments (1997) (685)
Fundamentals Of Argumentation Theory (1996) (278)
The U.S. and the world (2014) (208)
Presidential Rhetoric and the Power of Definition (2004) (203)
President Johnson's War On Poverty: Rhetoric and History (1986) (123)
Strategic Maneuvering through Persuasive Definitions: Implications for Dialectic and Rhetoric (2007) (83)
Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate (1990) (66)
Reagan's safety net for the truly needy: The rhetorical uses of definition (1984) (66)
Strategic Maneuvering in Political Argumentation (2008) (61)
Public Speaking: Strategies for Success (1995) (57)
President johnson's war on poverty: The rhetoric of three “establishment” movements (1977) (50)
Making the Case for War: Colin Powell at the United Nations (2007) (49)
A skeptical view of movement studies (1980) (41)
Spectator politics and the revival of public argument (1992) (39)
Argumentation: The Study Of Effective Reasoning (2001) (36)
President Johnson's War On Poverty (1986) (35)
Knowledge claims in rhetorical criticism (2008) (34)
Conspiracy Arguments in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1984) (30)
Rhetorical Perspectives on Argumentation, Selected Essays by David Zarefsky (2014) (25)
Lyndon Johnson redefines “equal opportunity:”; The beginnings of affirmative action (1980) (25)
The great society as a rhetorical proposition (1979) (23)
Persistent Questions in the Theory of Argument Fields (1982) (19)
Martin Luther King, the American dream and Vietnam: A collision of rhetorical trajectories (1992) (18)
Reflections on rhetorical criticism (2006) (16)
The Perils of Assessing Paradigms. (1982) (15)
Henry Clay and the Election of 1844: The Limits of a Rhetoric of Compromise (2003) (14)
Lincoln's 1862 Annual Message: A Paradigm of Rhetorical Leadership (2010) (14)
Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship (2014) (14)
Civil rights and civil conflict: Presidential communication in crisis (1983) (13)
From “conflict” to “constitutional question”: Transformations in early American public discourse (1990) (12)
The Appeal for Transcendence: A Possible Response to Cases of Deep Disagreement (2012) (11)
Argument in transition : proceedings of the Third Summer Conference on Argumentation (1983) (10)
The Continuing Fascination with Lincoln (2003) (10)
Hypothesis-Testing in Theory and Practice. (1983) (10)
The Lincoln‐Douglas debates revisited: The evolution of public argument (1986) (10)
What Does an Argument Culture Look Like (2009) (10)
23 History of Public Discourse Studies (2009) (9)
Public Address Scholarship in the New Century (2010) (8)
'Public Sentiment Is Everything': Lincoln's View of Political Persuasion (1994) (8)
American Voices, Significant Speeches in American History: 1640-1945 (1989) (8)
Rhetorical interpretations of the American Civil War (1995) (8)
Pragma-dialectical analysis of rhetorical texts: The case of Barack Obama in Cairo (2011) (8)
Institutional and social goals for rhetoric (2004) (7)
Criteria for evaluating non-policy argument (1980) (7)
Political Argumentation in the United States: Historical and contemporary studies. Selected essays by David Zarefsky (2014) (7)
Goodnight's “Speculative Inquiry” in Its Intellectual Context (2012) (7)
Approaching Lincoln's second inaugural address (1988) (6)
Underlying Assumptions of Examining Argumentation Rhetorically (2019) (6)
Putting Evidence in Its Place: A Means Not an End (2011) (6)
Sizing Up Rhetoric (2007) (6)
Examining Argumentation in Context (2009) (6)
The Role of Causal Argument in Policy Controversies (1977) (6)
A Challenge and an Opportunity for Argumentation Studies (2012) (5)
Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Rhetorical Criticism (2006) (5)
Consistency and Change in Lincoln's Rhetoric about Equality (2010) (5)
The United States and the world: The rhetorical dimensions of Obama’s foreign policy (2014) (5)
The Practice of Argumentation (2019) (4)
Lincoln and the House Divided: Launching a National Political Career (2010) (4)
Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War (2011) (4)
Subordinating the civil rights issue: Lyndon Johnson in 1964 (1983) (4)
Felicity Conditions for the Circumstantial Ad Hominem : The Case of Bush v. Gore (2014) (4)
Obama’s Lincoln (2014) (3)
Product, Process, or Point of View? (2014) (3)
Causal argument among historians: The case of the American civil war (1980) (3)
The rhetorical stance of populism (2020) (3)
Forensic Tournaments Planning and Administration (1980) (3)
Sorting Out the Issues in the Epistemic Status of Rhetoric--A Reply to Bineham. (1989) (3)
Afa Support for Research: Journals and Conferences (2000) (3)
Obama’s Lincoln: Uses of the argument from historical analogy (2014) (3)
Felicity Conditions For The Circumstantial ad Hominem (2003) (2)
Ideological conservatism vs. Faux populism in Donald Trump’s inaugural address (2019) (2)
Argument as Hypothesis-Testing (2014) (2)
Chapter 22. Persistent Questions in the Theory of Argument Fields (1992) (2)
Consistency and change in the rhetoric of Stephen A. Douglas (1997) (2)
Making the case for war (2014) (2)
Arguing About Values: The Problem of Public Moral Argument (2014) (2)
Pragma-dialectical analysis of rhetorical texts (2011) (2)
George W. Bush discovers rhetoric: September 20, 2001 and the U.S. response to terrorism (2014) (2)
Book Review INFORMAL LOGIC XII ! . 3 , Fall 1991 Charles Willard ' s A Theory of Argumentation (2007) (2)
Henry Clay and the election of 1844 (2014) (2)
Reflections on Hypothesis Testing in Response to Ulrich (1984) (2)
Argumentation in Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (2015) (1)
Reflections on the Ndt at 50 (1996) (1)
The 'comeback' second Obama-Romney debate and virtues of argumentation (2013) (1)
“Public sentiment is everything” (2014) (1)
Reclaiming Rhetoric’s Responsibilities (2014) (1)
Introduction: The field of political argumentation (2014) (1)
Turning Points in the Galesburg Debate (2010) (1)
Remembering Michael Leff (2010) (1)
Debating slavery by proxy: The Texas annexation controversy (2011) (1)
Terrorism and the Argument from Ignorance (2014) (1)
The Language of Democracy: Political Rhetoric in the United States and Britain, 1790–1900 by Andrew W. Robertson (review) (2007) (1)
Theoretical Issues in Academic Debate: The Obstacles to Discussion. (1974) (1)
Lyndon Johnson redefines “equal opportunity” (2014) (1)
Cognitive communities and argument communities (2011) (1)
Philosophy and Rhetoric in Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (2012) (1)
[Special Issue: Critical Social Theory of Jurgen Habermas and Its Implications for Argumentation Theory and Practice]. (1979) (1)
Willard's A Theory of Argumentation (1991) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
Implicit Theories of Argument in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (2021) (0)
David Zarefsky, 1993 President, National Communication Association (2010) (0)
Obama/Romney Debates (2016) (0)
Commentary on "What should a normative theory of argument look like?" (2016) (0)
Part III. Argumentation and American foreign policy (2014) (0)
A Report on the Status of Standards for Tenure and Promotion in Debate (2010) (0)
Pragma-Dialectical Analysis of Rhetorical Texts: The Case of Barack Obama in Cairo with Dima Mohammed (2014) (0)
Civil rights and civil conflict (2014) (0)
The Prognosis for Domestic Policy (2010) (0)
Debating slavery by proxy (2014) (0)
Argument in Transition: Proceedings of the Summer Conference on Argumentation (3rd, Alta, Utah, July 28-31, 1983). (1983) (0)
Part IV. American political argumentation since the 1960s (2014) (0)
Language, Style, and Presentation (2019) (0)
Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason by David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften (review) (2013) (0)
Foreign policy as persuasion: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam (2014) (0)
Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America, by Allen C. Guelzo (2009) (0)
Part II. Abraham Lincoln’s political argumentation (2014) (0)
Complete handbook on environmental control : a reference manual for debaters and others interested in the subject (1970) (0)
John tyler and the rhetoric of the accidental presidency (2008) (0)
George W. Bush discovers rhetoric (2014) (0)
Martin H. Quitt.Stephen A. Douglas and Antebellum Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xv+210. $24.99 (paper). (2014) (0)
Rhetorical Criticism: The P ast Fift y Years (2013) (0)
Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality. By James L. Huston. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xii, 221 pp. $39.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-3456-8.) (2008) (0)
The U.S. and the world: The rhetorical dimensions of Obama’s foreign policy (2014) (0)
Foreign policy as persuasion (2014) (0)
Book reviews (1995) (0)
Changing Concepts in Forensics. (1974) (0)
The Ebola Crisis as an Interfield Dispute (2018) (0)
The Lincoln-Douglas debates revisited (2014) (0)
Commentary on Van Eemeren & Garssen (2009) (0)
Martin Luther King, the American Dream, and Vietnam (2014) (0)
Rhetoric, political ideology, and slavery (2003) (0)
The Public Work of Rhetoric: Citizen-Scholars and Civic Engagement, John M. Ackerman and David J. Coogan, eds. (2011) (0)
From “conflict” to “Constitutional question” (2014) (0)
The Impasse of the Liberal Argument: Speculation on American Politics in the Late 1960s (2014) (0)
Comments on ‘Strategic Maneuvering in Question Time in the British House of Commons’ (2008) (0)
The State of the Art in Public Address Scholarship (2020) (0)
Obituary: Michael Leff (1941–2010) (2010) (0)
Lincoln and the House Divided (2014) (0)
Abraham Lincoln and White America (2014) (0)
Taking the Jurisprudential Analogy Seriously (2014) (0)
Government Statistics: The Case for Independant Regulation—A New Legislative Proposal (1981) (0)
Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789–1861: Liberty, Tradition, and the Good Society (review) (2008) (0)
The self-sealing rhetoric of John Foster Dulles (2014) (0)
Evidence in Argumentation (2019) (0)
Contextualizing pragma-dialectics. Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Wu Peng (2020) (0)
Enduring Liberalism: American Political Thought Since the 1960s (review) (2010) (0)
Liberalism and Its Discontents (review) (2010) (0)
Chapter 6. Strategic ambiguity as an argumentative resource (2019) (0)
Review of Argumentation Theory: A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective (2020) (0)
Founding Fictions, by J. R. Mercieca (2012) (0)
Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy, by Ned O'Gorman (2013) (0)
Commentary on: Christian Kock's "Virtue reversed: Principal argumentative vices in political debate" (2013) (0)
Reflections on Making the Case (2014) (0)
Lincoln and Historical Accuracy (2015) (0)
Part I. Early American political argumentation (2014) (0)
The Eloquent President, and: Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered (review) (2008) (0)
Lincoln, by Richard J. Carwardine (2005) (0)

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