Reviews several books. "Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology," edited by Tarla Rai Peterson; "Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks," edited by Carol S. Lipson and Roberta A. Binkley; "Performing Purity: Whiteness, Pedagogy and the Reconstitution of Power," by John T. Warren; "Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture," by John M. Sloop; "Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making," edited by Stephen P. Depoe, John W. Delicath and Marie-France Aepli Elsenbeer.