Sovereign, settler, leaker, lie : forms of the secret in US political rhetoric /
Analyzes the role of the secret in twenty-first-century US political discourse, theorizing different forms of the secret across presidential scandals, detective narratives, national security leaks and racist dog whistles.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
[2026].
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| Series: | New directions in rhetoric and materiality
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The secret's forms
- The secret episteme : a genealogy of political crisis
- The secret in and of discourse : hidden depths and open surfaces
- The scandal : George W. Bush and the exposure of Valerie Plame Wilson
- The dog whistle : weaponizing Saul Alinsky in the Obama years
- The leak : sexual caricature and the national security state
- The detective : settler subjects and neocolonial warfare
- Twisted endings : the secret in and of the deep state.