Robert Ivie
Robert Lynn Ivie is an American academic known for his works on American public rhetoric concerning war and terrorism.
Education and career
Ivie obtained a Ph.D. in rhetoric and communication in 1972 from Washington State University. He taught at Gonzaga University from 1972-1974, at Idaho State University from 1974-1975, at Washington State University from 1975-1986 and at Texas A&M University from 1986-1993. In 1993, he came to Indiana University where he was a professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University until he retired in May 2013.Books
Ivie is the author or co-author of books including- Congress Declares War: Rhetoric, Leadership, and Partisanship in the Early Republic
- Cold War Rhetoric: Strategy, Metaphor, and Ideology
- Democracy and America's War on Terror
- Dissent From War
- ''Hunt the Devil: A Demonology of US War Culture''