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It's a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style issues more than compound and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate's every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This audiobook explores politics communication in American presidential politics, focusing on what politics insiders call "message". Message, Michael Lempert and Michael Silverstein argue, is not simply an individual's positions on the issues but the art used to fashion the creature the public recognizes as the candidate. Lempert and Silverstein verify a few of the revelatory moments in debates, politics advertisings, interviews, speeches, and talk shows to clarify how these politics creations come to have a life of their own. From the pandering "Flip-Flopper" to the self-reliant "Maverick", the creators show how these results are fashioned out of the verbal, gestural, sartorial, behavioral - as well as linguistic - matter that comprises politics communication.
