President Bush's image repair discourse on Hurricane Katrina

Public Relations Review

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-46

  Benoit, William L ^a   Henson, Jayne R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolstering; Corrective action; Defeasibility; Hurricane Katrina; Image repair; President Bush

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649089234     PISSN: 03638111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2008.09.022     Document Type: Article

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