Carl Rogers was a psychotherapist who wrote about communication—how to practice it, how difficult it is, and why it matters. He did some of his most important writing during the 1950s, at the beginning of the Cold War, and clearly understood all too well what was at stake if and when communication failed. His theories were adopted by rhetorician scholars in the 1970s and packaged in composition textbooks as
I'm a split personality...half Rogers, half Aristotle!