Rhetoric in History as Theory and Praxis: A Blast from the Past.

The article focuses on rhetorical theory and its role in history as well as ways that rhetoric can influence invention and judgment. The article discusses three distinct construals of rhetorical practice: productive art, constitutive art, and inventional art. Topics include the context of rhetoric in the Second World War, Aristotle's definition of rhetoric, rhetoric and socialism, the proficiency of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt as a rhetorician during the Great Depression, war culture and propaganda, the internment of Japanese Americans, and anti-Semitism and Jewish emigration.