How to Watch Presidential Debates Without Losing It: Making Rhetorical Lemonade from Political Lemons - Hardcover

Llano, Stephen M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3031948165 ISBN 13: 9783031948169

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025

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This book offers an answer to the question, "Why are Presidential debates so bad?" The answer could be that the Commission on Presidential Debates ruined them, or it could be that we don't really know how to watch or judge a debate. This book offers both an explanation of how we historically ended up with these terrible debates and how to make lemonade out of them. The book provides a method to watching this madness without going or getting mad yourself, and what perhaps we can say to others about these debates. It concludes with speculation beyond 2024 now that the Commission on Presidential Debates appears to be irrelevant. What types of debate can we expect, and what should we demand?

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Stephen M. Llano (B.A., Texas A&M; M.A., Syracuse University; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) has taught debate at the middle school, high school, and university level. He has lectured on debate extensively in North America, Europe, and Asia in countries such as Japan, Slovenia, and Ukraine. He regularly publishes his work in journals such as Argumentation and Advocacy. He is the founding editor of a the journal Studies in Debate and Oratory, and is host of the debating podcast “In the Bin.”

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This book offers an answer to the question, "Why are Presidential debates so bad?" The answer could be that the Commission on Presidential Debates ruined them, or it could be that we don't really know how to watch or judge a debate. This book offers both an explanation of how we historically ended up with these terrible debates and how to make lemonade out of them. The book provides a method to watching this madness without going or getting mad yourself, and what perhaps we can say to others about these debates. It concludes with speculation beyond 2024 now that the Commission on Presidential Debates appears to be irrelevant. What types of debate can we expect, and what should we demand?

Stephen M. Llano (B.A., Texas A&M; M.A., Syracuse University; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) has taught debate at the middle school, high school, and university level. He has lectured on debate extensively in North America, Europe, and Asia in countries such as Japan, Slovenia, and Ukraine. He regularly publishes his work in journals such as Argumentation and Advocacy. He is the founding editor of a the journal Studies in Debate and Oratory, and is host of the debating podcast “In the Bin.”

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3031948165
• ISBN 13: 9783031948169
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 127
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