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Phillips Brooks
Pulpit Eloquence
E-bok, 2001
857 kr
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Phillips Brooks, author of the carol O Little Town of Bethlehem, was the rector of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Boston for 22 years and the Bishop of Massachusetts for 15 months until his death in 1893. This volume in the Great American Orators series focuses on Brooks' oratorical style and the …
Sojourner Truth as Orator
Wit, Story, and Song
Av Suzanne P. Fitch, Roseann Mandziuk
E-bok, 1997
883 kr
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This work is an in-depth analysis of the full breadth of Sojourner Truth's public discourse that places it in its proper historical context and explores the use of humor and narratives as primary rhetorical strategies used by this illiterate ex-slave to create a powerful public persona. The book …
Delightful Conviction
Jonathan Edwards and the Rhetoric of Conversion
Av John C. Adams, Stephen R. Yarbrough
E-bok, 1993
857 kr
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In analyzing Jonathan Edwards preaching in eighteenth-century colonial America, the authors demonstrate how his rhetoric distinguished between conversion and persuasion. The authors delineate the basic tenets of Puritan theology, place Edwards' noted sermons within an historical framework, and show …
Frederick Douglass
Oratory from Slavery
E-bok, 1998
1247 kr
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Frederick Douglass, once a slave, was one of the great 19th century American orators and the most important African American voice of his era. This book traces the development of his rhetorical skills, discusses the effect of his oratory on his contemporaries, and analyzes the specific oratorical …
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
The Voice of Conscience
Inbunden, 1992
834 kr
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This reference is the only book-length work to analyze all of the major speeches of one of the most significant politicians of the first part of the twentieth century, Robert La Follette, Sr. His speeches offer historic snapshots into the Progressive era and of the thinking of an outstanding …
Eugene Talmadge
Rhetoric and Response
Av Calvin Logue
Inbunden, 1989
955 kr
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In this third volume of Greenwood's Great American Orators series, Logue delineates the oratory career of Eugene Talmadge whose public speaking illustrates the use--and some would say the abuse--of a most necessary democratic institution: free speech in the political arena. Logue notes in …
Defender of the Union
The Oratory of Daniel Webster
Inbunden, 1989
809 kr
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Like no other orator in American history, Daniel Webster dominated the Federal courts, the Congress, and the public speaking circuit. In this book, Smith offers a close study of the rhetorical techniques and powers of persuasion that gave Webster a uniquely influential voice in the political, …
William Jennings Bryan
Orator of Small-Town America
Inbunden, 1991
834 kr
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William Jennings Bryan is probably best remembered today for two rhetorical transactions: his The Cross of Gold acceptance speech, delivered at the 1896 Democratic national convention in Chicago, and his exchanges with Clarence Darrow in the 1925 Scopes Trial in Tennessee. But, as Donald Springen …
Search for Self-Sovereignty
The Oratory of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Inbunden, 1989
786 kr
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the founding philosophers of America's women's rights movement. The first woman's rights convention in the United States was held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848; there she helped write and present the Declaration of Sentiments, a woman's bill of rights which …
Clarence Darrow
The Creation of an American Myth
Inbunden, 1992
853 kr
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He reviled the rich for their cupidity and they found his rhetoric repulsive. Plebians believed him their champion and patricians knew he was their bete noire, remarks Halford Ryan in his eloquent foreword to this definitive survey of Clarence Darrow's development as orator and unique American …
Ronald Reagan
The Great Communicator
Inbunden, 1992
809 kr
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This reference combines a critical analysis of Ronald Reagan's style as a public speaker with a set of selected speeches and an extensive bibliography. Kurt Ritter and David Henry cover his oratory from his days in the motion picture industry and as a political candidate to his years as Governor of …
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Strategic Communicator
Inbunden, 1993
834 kr
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This first book-length assessment of Ike's consummate skills as a communicator shows how, contrary to popular belief, he used language effectively as a weapon to achieve well-conceived strategic ends during the Cold War. Medhurst demonstrates how Eisenhower chose his audiences and times …
Edward Everett
Unionist Orator
Av Ronald Reid
Inbunden, 1990
927 kr
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If Edward Everett is remembered at all today, it is as the orator who gave the other speech at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863. Ironically, Everett's oration, which was given wide coverage in contemporary newspapers, was recognized as both epideictic and argumentative. Everett …
Abraham Lincoln the Orator
Penetrating the Lincoln Legend
Inbunden, 1992
1210 kr
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Although much has been written about Abraham Lincoln, there has been little rhetorical analysis of how this public man communicated with his listeners. Yet by studying his rhetoric closely, we can gain real insights into Lincoln as an orator, debater, jester, lawyer, statesman, leader, and …
Patrick Henry, The Orator
Inbunden, 1990
1174 kr
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Best known for his Liberty or Death address, the oratorical essence of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry, Virginia patriot, statesman, and foremost orator of the Revolutionary period, is scrutinized in this eighth volume in the Greenwood Press Great American Orators series. Taken as a whole …
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Preacher and Lecturer
Av Lloyd Rohler
Inbunden, 1995
985 kr
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This critical analysis identifies the different rhetorical strategies and techniques that Emerson used first as a traditional New England preacher and then as he became a widely renowned public lecturer. Ten texts illustrating his different kinds of speeches on a wide array of subjects, such as …
Anna Howard Shaw
Suffrage Orator and Social Reformer
Av Wil Linkugel, Martha Solomon
Inbunden, 1990
786 kr
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With the publication of this book, the Reverend Anna Howard Shaw assumes her rightful place in the pantheon of great American orators. Beginning with a brief introduction and a biographical sketch, the book traces Shaw's career and work as a public lecturer. Because of its significance in her later …
Henry Ward Beecher
Peripatetic Preacher
Inbunden, 1990
488 kr
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For approximately four decades, from shortly before the Civil War until his death in 1887, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher dominated the pulpit and the public platform. Halford Ryan argues that although the ministry was Beecher's career, public speaking was his calling. Combining important orations …
Theodore Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of Militant Decency
Inbunden, 1990
786 kr
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Friedenberg brings to this study of Theodore Roosevelt a thorough grounding in the criticism of American public address. Basing his findings on his own detailed reading of Roosevelt's speeches and supplementing it with his own research in the primary collections of Roosevelt's manuscripts, Robert …
Mark Twain
Protagonist for the Popular Culture
Inbunden, 1992
903 kr
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How did Mark Twain develop his remarkable oral style of writing which was so carefully crafted? And what can we learn about nineteenth-century America from the public speeches of this humorist and teacher who charmed his country and exported his notions of Americanism around the world? This is the …
Do Everything Reform
The Oratory of Frances E. Willard
Inbunden, 1992
786 kr
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This is the first study of the reform oratory of the silver-tongued temperance leader, Frances Willard. It provides a critical analysis of the speaking style of this influential late nineteenth century suffragette, prohibitionist, and leader of women. This work also provides texts of representative …
Delightful Conviction
Jonathan Edwards and the Rhetoric of Conversion
Av John C. Adams, Stephen R. Yarbrough
Inbunden, 1993
786 kr
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In analyzing Jonathan Edwards preaching in eighteenth-century colonial America, the authors demonstrate how his rhetoric distinguished between conversion and persuasion. The authors delineate the basic tenets of Puritan theology, place Edwards' noted sermons within an historical framework, and show …
In a Perilous Hour
The Public Address of John F. Kennedy
Av George N. Dionisopoilos, Steven R. Goldzwig
Inbunden, 1995
903 kr
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This first book-length critical analysis of Kennedy's public address defines how he aroused Americans to rise to the opportunities and challenges that he defined for them. This rigorously researched study offers an in-depth analysis of the development of President Kennedy as a public speaker and a …
Harry S. Truman
Presidential Rhetoric
Inbunden, 1993
1210 kr
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Harry Truman is famous for his plain speaking, and his presidential rhetoric is evaluated in this reference in terms of his most important speeches relating to the Cold War, the Korean War, and themes that helped him win a remarkable election victory in 1948. This in-depth analysis of his major …
Helen Keller, Public Speaker
Sightless But Seen, Deaf But Heard
Inbunden, 1998
518 kr
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This is the first book-length study of Helen Keller's public speaking. It contains rhetorical analysis about how a person who was sightless but seen, deaf but heard learned to communicate, and how she gave public speeches for nearly 80 years inspiring others with her vision for a better tomorrow. …
Father Charles E. Coughlin
Surrogate Spokesman for the Disaffected
Inbunden, 1998
834 kr
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As Americans moved from farms and small towns to large cities, they tended to lose a hallmark of their earlier life: comparatively direct participation in the discourse of pragmatic affairs. The ubiquitous radio, which became a primary medium of communication during the Great Depression, tended to …
Douglas MacArthur
Warrior as Wordsmith
Av Ronald H. Carpenter, Bernard K. Duffy
Inbunden, 1997
903 kr
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From I Shall Return to Old Soldiers Never Die, General MacArthur's phraseology invariably captured an audience's attention. The MacArthur persona may be familiar to many Americans more because of his oratory than because of his military deeds. Covering both his martial and his political oratory, …
Margaret Chase Smith
Model Public Servant
Inbunden, 1998
1310 kr
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The selected speeches of Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine made throughout her 32 year career in the U.S. Congress are critically analyzed in this rhetorical study. The inquiry focuses on the factors of her political persona that garnered her the support of her constituents and the respect of …
Sojourner Truth as Orator
Wit, Story, and Song
Av Suzanne P. Fitch, Roseann Mandziuk
Inbunden, 1997
809 kr
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This work is an in-depth analysis of the full breadth of Sojourner Truth's public discourse that places it in its proper historical context and explores the use of humor and narratives as primary rhetorical strategies used by this illiterate ex-slave to create a powerful public persona. The book …
Frederick Douglass
Oratory from Slavery
Inbunden, 1998
1310 kr
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Frederick Douglass, once a slave, was one of the great 19th century American orators and the most important African American voice of his era. This book traces the development of his rhetorical skills, discusses the effect of his oratory on his contemporaries, and analyzes the specific oratorical …
