{"product_id":"9781771661164","title":"A More Perfect [","description":"Iconic political speeches are some of the best remembered and most repeated passages in contemporary English language. Especially in the United States of America, what child doesn’t know Abraham Lincoln's “Fourscore and seven years ago...\" or Roosevelt's \"The only thing we have to fear...\"?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking as its source text Barack Obama's campaign speech from March 18, 2008, \u003ci\u003eA More Perfect [\u003c\/i\u003e by Jimmy McInnes acts as a poetic translation of the rhetorical devices often used in political speeches. Like poetry, the campaign speech depends heavily upon the manipulation of language—the ways in which words are able to strategically twist intention and distract the eye. McInnes's poetry exposes the inner workings of the political speech, as a genre of text as premeditated as any work of poetry or fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA More Perfect [\u003c\/i\u003e blends both political and formal linguistic concerns, garnering comparisons to Jena Osman's \u003ci\u003eCorporate Relations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlice Oswald's Memorial\u003c\/i\u003e in their negotiation of source texts. Readers with an interest in language, linguistics, and rhetoric, and those with a particular interest in political themes and formal innovation, will relish this entertaining and culturally poignant read.","brand":"BookThug","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131302789360,"sku":"9781771661164","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781771661164_p0.jpg?v=1763708296","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771661164","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}