Barbara A. Biesecker is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Addressing Postmodernity: Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change and coeditor of Rhetoric, Materiality, and Politics.
“Reinventing World War II is an incisive, theoretically sophisticated, and well-argued critique ranging from the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s through popular culture’s invocation of WWII memory as a palliative. This historical critique is brought to bear in a summative—and sobering—commentary on the extreme political polarization of the present moment. A must-read for cultural/rhetorical critics and memory scholars and those concerned about the current state of political discourse in the United States.” —Carole Blair,coeditor of Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials