{"product_id":"sovereign-settler-leaker-lie-forms-of-the-secret-in-us-political-rhetoric-paperback","title":"Sovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie: Forms of the Secret in US Political Rhetoric - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAtilla Hallsby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie, \u003c\/i\u003e Atilla Hallsby argues that secrets play a pivotal role in organizing political discourse in the United States. Hallsby takes up contemporary case studies-ranging from the Valerie Plame scandal during the George W. Bush presidency, to the use of Saul Alinsky's name as a partisan codeword for politicizing Obama's Blackness, to Chelsea Manning's public naming and outing-to show how dramatic revelations increasingly fail to produce meaningful change and instead reproduce entrenched racial, gendered, and colonial hierarchies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The core feature of these interlinked moments of crisis is the secret: a rhetorical patterning of political life organized by specific forms, each one lending a familiar shape to the shadows of American empire. These forms, theorized here as tropes, connect decades of secrets, linking the George W. Bush administration's War on Terror to the Trump-era reemergence of \"deep state\" conspiracy theories. As an extension of secrecy and surveillance studies, and with the aim of attaining a more accountable and just form of US governmentality, \u003ci\u003eSovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie\u003c\/i\u003e explains how still-unfolding political realities in the United States emerged, transformed, and regenerate.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAtilla Hallsby is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eReading Rhetorical Theory: Speech, Representation, and Power.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 13, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53146660798771,"sku":"9780814259726","price":69.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/GsN2d09RRW9780814259726.webp?v=1773868656","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/sovereign-settler-leaker-lie-forms-of-the-secret-in-us-political-rhetoric-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}