About the Editors

Shawn J. Parry-Giles is Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Political communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955 (2001) and co-author of Constructing Clinton: Hyper-Reality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics (2002) and The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and US Nationalism (2006). She is the co-editor of Public Address and Moral Judgment: Critical Studies in Ethical Tensions (2009).

J. Michael Hogan is Professor of Rhetoric and Co-director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of the Panama Canal In American Politics (1986), The Nuclear Freeze Campaign (1994), and Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour (2006). He also edited two other volumes, Rhetoric and Community (1998) and Rhetoric and Reform in the Progressive Era (2003). In 2008, Hogan was elected a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association.