Rebeca C. Leffler is an America in the World Consortium Postdoctoral Associate at the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education. Her research focuses on the ideas, traditions, and texts that have shaped the American political system. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities at LancasterHistory, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Jack Miller Center, and the Western Political Science Association. Her peer-reviewed research is forthcoming in American Political Thought, SAGE Encyclopedia of Crime and Gender, and the edited volume, Movements and American Political Thought. Prior to joining AWC, she taught government and political philosophy at Claremont McKenna College and Hamilton College.
Leffler’s first monograph, Executive War Rhetoric, examines how American executives have used war rhetoric as part of statecraft. Using an applied history, conceptual, and comparative-historical approach, she develops what makes for effective and responsible executive war rhetoric, given American constitutionalism and grand strategy. In Part One, she surveys the classical origins of rhetoric and examines the phenomena and political significance of war rhetoric—a blended species of deliberative, epideictic, and judicial rhetoric. Part Two offers a comparative-historical analysis of executive rhetoric during the American Civil War Era.
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