The following are potential books you might offer students as texts for their Rhetorical Analysis assignment (Project Two), as crowd-sourced from practicum participants. You should be able to cut and past selections (with active links) into your course wiki fairly easily.
Glenn Beck: An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems
Tom Bissell: Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
George W. Bush: Decision Points
Glenn Beck: An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems
Stephen Colbert: I Am America (And So Can You!)
Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum: That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Sam Harris: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
Paul Ingrassia: Crash Course: the American Automobile Industry’s Road from Glory to Disaster
Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich: Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington
Alex Prud’Homme: The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century
Robert D. Putnam: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Claude M. Steele: Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show: America (The Book)
Juan Williams: Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate
