American rhetoric: context and criticism

Foreword / Lewis Perry

History, criticism, and theory in the study of American rhetoric / Thomas W. Benson

Patrick Henry's "Liberty or death" speech : a study in disputed authorship / Stephen T. Olsen

Justifying America : the Declaration of Independence as a rhetorical document / Stephen E. Lucas

Early constitutional rhetoric in Pennsylvania / Carroll C. Arnold

The rhetorical birth of a political pamphleteer : William Cobbett's "Observations on Priestley's emigration" / James R. Andrews

Central Park and the celebration of civic virtue / Lawrence W. Rosenfield

The politics of prayer : a case study in configurational interplay / Martin J. Medhurst

dt Rhetoric as a way of being /

Thomas W. Benson.

Administrative rhetoric and public opinion : discussing the Iranian hostages in the public sphere / dr Gerard A. Hauser

dt The rhetoric of denial and alternity /

Richard B. Gregg.