The idea for a series of books on great American orators grew out of the recognition that there is a paucity of book-length studies on individual orators and their speeches. This series examines the role of rhetoric in the United States. Because of the disparate nature of the speakers examined in the series, there is some latitude in the nature of the bibliographical materials that have been included in each book. But in every instance, authors have carefully described original historical materials and collections and gathered critical studies, biographies and autobiographies, and a variety of secondary sources that bear on the speaker and the oratory. By combing in each book bibliographies, speech texts and the critical chapters, this series notes that text and research sources are interwoven in the act of rhetorical criticism. This book captures both the brilliant flashes and the arrogant stupidities of the man. It does not — how could it? —present the final judgement on his oratory.
Author: Bernard K. Duffy and Ronald H. Carpenter
ISBN: 0313291489
Pages: 223
Features: HB, BM |