ROBERT E. DENTON, JR., is Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author and editor of several books, including The 1992 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective (Praeger, 1994), Political Communication in America, 2d ed., with Gary Woodward (Praeger, 1990), and The Primetime Presidency of Ronald Reagan (Praeger, 1988).
RACHEL L. HOLLOWAY is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is the author of In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Politics, Rhetoric, and Self-Defense (Praeger, 1993).