Purifying the body politic: Steroids, rafael palmeiro, and the rhetorical cleansing of major league baseball

Western Journal of Communication

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 145-161

  Butterworth, Michael L ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"War on Terror"; Baseball; George W. Bush; Purity; Rafael Palmeiro; Scapegoat; Steroids

Indexed keywords

EID: 45949092603     PISSN: 10570314     EISSN: 17451027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10570310802038713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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