Political conversion : personal transformation as strategic public communication /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Waisanen, Don (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Series:	Lexington studies in political communication.
Subjects:	Chambers, Whittaker. > Witness. Podhoretz, Norman. > Breaking ranks. Horowitz, David, > 1939- > Radical son. Wills, Garry, > 1934- > Confessions of a conservative. Communication in politics > United States. Religion and politics > United States. Conversion. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction : political transformation as a pervasive strategy
Political conversion as Manichaean deduction : Whittaker Chambers's Witness
Political conversion as intellectual reduction : Norman Podhoretz's Breaking ranks
Political conversion as generational induction : David Horowitz's Radical son
Political conversion as bypassed seduction : Garry Wills's Confessions of a conservative
Political transformation in U.S. politics
Bibliography
Index
About the author.