Michael Calvin McGee
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Michael Calvin McGee (October 21, 1943 – October 27, 2002) was an American rhetorical theorist, writer and social critic.
McGee was born on October 21, 1943, in Rockwood, Tennessee, to John Vester and Dorothy Eloise McGee (née Hicks). Je spent his early years in Knoxville, Tennessee. He graduated with a B.A. in Speech from Butler University, where he was a champion debater. In 1967, he graduated with an M.A. in Rhetoric from Cornell University. In 1973 he married Lyda Eugenia Twitty. In 1974, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, writing his dissertation "Edmund Burke's Beautiful Lie: An Exploration of the Relationship between Rhetoric and Social Theory" under Donald C. Bryant. He received some criticism for his teaching because of his staunch liberalism, which affected his teaching style, but despite this, he was still a very sought-after professor, teaching at major universities in the United States such as the University of Alabama, the University of Memphis, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is known for his materialistic views of rhetoric, summarized from the lesser-known McGee essay "The Practical Identity of Thought and Its Expression".[1] In 1979, he moved to Iowa City, where he settled in at the University of Iowa.[citation needed]
