List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: The Psychology of Sacred Rhetoric
1 Sacred Rhetoric in American Politics
2 Values and Value Conflict, Sacred Values and Sacred Rhetoric
3 The Reasoning Effect: Sacred Rhetoric and Deliberation
4 The Activation Effect: Sacred Rhetoric and Participation
PART II: Political Consequences of Sacred Rhetoric
5 "From My Cold, Dead Hands": Sacred Rhetoric and Social Movements
6 The Absolutist Advantage: Sacred Rhetoric in the Bush Era
7 Sacred Rhetoric from Carter to Clinton: The 1976-1996 Presidential Debates
8 Sacred Rhetoric, the 2008 Campaigns, and the Democratic Party
Conclusion: "A Cure for Thought and the Diseases It Breeds"
Methodological Appendix: Subjects, an Experimental Approach
Notes
References
Index