The Great Nation of Futurity

Patricia L. Dunmire is a Professor of Rhetoric & Composition at Kent State University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in argumentation and discourse studies. Using a critical discourse studies approach, her work examines the discursive construal and rhetorical function of projections of the future within political discourse. Her work has been published in several journals, including Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse & Society, and The Journal of Language and Politics, as well as in edited volumes, and she is the author of Projecting the Future through Political Discourse.

Preface
Chapter 1 Futurity National Identity and Foreign Policy Discourse
Chapter 2 America's Most Precious Resource
Chapter 3 Vistas to the Future
Chapter 4 New Vistas of Opportunity
Chapter 5 Alerting America
Chapter 6 From the American Century to the End of History: An American Future of Democratic Peace
Chapter 7 The Future of American Exceptionalism
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