Roderick P. Hart holds the Shivers Centennial Chair in Communication and is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, where he is the former dean of the Moody College of Communication and the founding director of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life. Hart is the author of eight mid-list books, including The Sound of Leadership (1987), Seducing America (1994), Campaign Talk (2000), Political Keywords (2005), Political Tone (2013), Civic Hope (2018), Trump and Us (2020), and American Eloquence (2023).