Public Forgetting
The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again
by Bradford Vivian
212 pages· 2010· ISBN 9780271036656
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Using examples ranging from classical rhetoric to contemporary crises like 9/11, Public Forgetting demonstrates how communities may adopt idioms of forgetting in order to create new and beneficial standards of public judgment.
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