Donald J. Trump's speaking and writing invite passionate reactions ― maybe he's a bluecollar, billionaire hero who speaks the language of the common man or maybe he's a gleefully illiterate, tremendously unqualified idiot. Whatever the case, he was persuasive enough to get himself elected President of the United States and he's been persuasive enough to keep a majority of his supporters behind him. In Faking the News: What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump, eleven prominent rhetoric experts explain how Trump's persuasive language works.
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Dr. Ryan Skinnell is the author of Conceding Composition: A Crooked History of Composition's Institutional Fortunes (Utah State University Press, 2016) and co-editor of What We Wish We'd Known: Negotiating Graduate School (Fountainhead Press, 2015) and Bureaucracy: A Love Story (Aquiline Books, 2018). He is the book review editor for Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society and is currently co-editing Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies.