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In an time when the worthiness of the humanities and qualitative inquiry has been questioned in academia and beyond, Making the Circumstance is an engaging and timely collection that includes a veritable who's who of general public address scholars to illustrate the power of case-based scholarly argument and to display how critical inquiry into a particular moment talks to standard contexts and ideas. Providing both a theoretical platform and an abundance of historically situated text messages, Making the Circumstance spans from Homeric Greece to 21st hundred years America. The writers examine the dynamic interplay of text messages and their concomitant rhetorical situations by sketching on a number of case studies, including controversial constitutional arguments submit by activists and presidents in the 19th hundred years, inventive monetary pivots by Franklin Roosevelt and Alan Greenspan, and the rhetorical trajectory and approach to Barack Obama.