American Voices

Bernard K. Duffy is Professor of Rhetoric in the Communication Studies Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and author/editor of several previous Greenwood titles. He was also co-series editor for the Great American Orators reference series.Richard W. Leeman is Professor and Department Chair of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author/editor of three previous Greenwood titles, including African-American Orators: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook (1996).

"Duffy and Leeman have compiled a collection of essays representing American orators since 1960....The 50 signed entries include every president since John F. Kennedy, politicians, activists, and jurists; despite its selective content the editors have made an admirable effort to represent all backgrounds. The introduction defines the coverage and discusses how the Internet, radio, and television have influenced rhetoric. Each essay includes a brief biography and examines key speeches made by each orator, complete with the events surrounding the speech and rhetorical analysis. Bibliographies accompanying each entry are among the strengths of this work. Information about research collections, collected speeches, biographical works, critical studies, and a chronology of the major speeches can be found in most entries. Primary sources, Web sites, books, magazines, and journal articles are among the many referenced entries. The accompanying bibliographic essay provides general sources on oratory and rhetoric that can be used by students and critics alike. This title will be useful for courses in public speaking and rhetoric, American history, and political science. Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers." - Choice

• Preface Introduction John D. Ashcroft by Harry Hellenbrand Elizabeth M. Birch by Shawn Parry-Giles and Jason Edward Black Patrick J. Buchanan by C. Brant Short George Herbert Walker Bush by Craig R. Smith George Walker Bush by Richard E. Vatz Robert Carlyle Byrd by William D. Pederson and Sina K. Nazemi Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Toure) by Robert E. Terrill James Earl Carter by Richard W. Leeman Cesar Estrada Chavez by John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen Ward L. Churchill by Catherine H. Palczewski Randall A. Lake Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton by Karrin Vasby Anderson William Jefferson Clinton by Stephen A. Smith Mario Matthew Cuomo by Mary Anne Trasciatti Thomas Andrew Daschle by Troy A. Murphy Angela Yvonne Davis by Cindy L. Griffin Alan Dershowitz by R. John DeSanto and Daniel A. Grano Elizabeth Hanford Dole by Nichola Gutgold Marian Wright Edelman by Beth Waggenspack Jocelyn Elders by Lorraine D. Jackson Jerry Falwell by Paul Stob and Charles Conrad Louis Abdul Farrakhan by Mark Lawrence McPhail Gerald Rudolph Ford by Herman Stelzner, revised by Charles Ottinger Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. by David Hoffman William "Billy" Graham, Jr. by Hal W. Fulmer and Jennifer L. Young Anita Faye Hill by Vanessa B. Beasley Jesse Louis Jackson by David B. McLennan Lyndon Baines Johnson by David Zarefsky Sonia Johnson by Karen A. Foss Barbara Charline Jordan by Carl Burgchardt Edward Moore Kennedy by William D. Pederson John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Theodore O. Windt, Jr., revised and edited by Steven Goldzwig Robert Francis Kennedy by Steven R. Goldzwig and Patricia A. Sullivan John F. Kerry by Bernard K. Duffy and Marilyn DeLaure Martin Luther King, Jr. by Marilyn DeLaure and Bernard K. Duffy Larry Kramer by Charles E. Morris Winona LaDuke by Dayle C. Hardy-Short and C. Brant Short Audre Geraldine Lorde by Lester C. Olson Wilma Mankiller by Christopher Skiles Thurgood Marshall by Stephen A. Smith William (Bill) Paul McCartney by Jennifer L. Young Russell Means by Randall A. Lake and Catherine H. Palczewski Harvey Bernard Milk by Karen A. Foss Ralph Nader by Steven Goldzwig and Patricia Sullivan Richard Milhous Nixon by Celeste M. Condit and Shannon Holland Samuel Augustus Nunn by Edward M. Panetta Sandra Day O'Conner by Janice Schuetz H. Ross Perot by Mari Boor Tonn and Valerie A. Endress Colin Luther Powell by Richard W. Leeman Ronald Wilson Reagan by Ronald H. Carpenter and Windy Y. Lawrence Janet Reno by Janice Schuetz Donald Rumsfeld by Gordon Stables Antonin Scalia by Catherine Langford Al Sharpton by Daniel A. Grano Gloria Steinem by Lisa Shawn Hogan George Wallace by Andrew King Alyce Faye Wattleton by Lorraine D. Jackson Christine Todd Whitman by Kristina Sheeler Malcolm X by Thomas W. Benson Bibliographic Essay by Alan Razee Contributors