Jeffrey Feldman, proprietor of the important Frameshop Is Open Blog, is publishing a new book entitled: Framing the Debate.

Dr. Feldman led a well-received panel entitled "Communicating the Progressive Vision," at the YearlyKos 2006 Convention in Las Vegas. A nice "live-blogging" summary of the panel can be found here.

The new book is a fascinating study of great Presidential speeches and an analysis of how those speeches framed the great public debates of their time.

Framing the Debate: Famous Presidential Speeches and How Progressives Can Use Them to Change the Conversation (and Win Elections) is about unleashing the power of communication in contemporary progressive politics. The book presents fifteen key speeches by American presidents-George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George Bush-in order to define the big ideas and images-the "frames"-that each speech evokes to show how those framing techniques can be applied to today's political debate in order promote a progressive perspective.

An essential book in today's political climate, Framing the Debate will be instrumental in helping to reshape progressive political language and rhetoric.

The book is scheduled to be shipped in April, but you can preorder it now at Amazon by clicking here.

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