Research Catalog

Title

The rhetoric of American politics; a study of documents.

Author

Smith, William Raymond, 1932-2008.

Publication

Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pub. Corp. [©1969]

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Details

Description

xv, 464 pages; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Contributions in American studies ; no. 1.

Subject

• Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States
• English language > United States > Rhetoric
• Debates and debating
• Rhetoric
• debates
• rhetoric (discipline)
• Rhetoric
• Debates and debating
• English language > Rhetoric
• Politics and government
• Rhetoric > Political aspects
• Politik
• Rhetorik
• United States > Politics and government
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The analysis of documents -- Uniqueness and our knowledge of the past -- Rhetorical analysis -- Hope and fear for the band of Christian brothers -- A modell of Christian charity (1630) / John Winthrop -- A commonplace to meet a crisis -- The unanimous declaration of the thirteen united states (1776) -- Tutelage for self-determination -- An ordinance for government of the territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio (1787) -- The leader of the consenus -- First inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson -- Self-preservation by strict construction -- William Marbury v. James Madison, Secretary of State of the United States (1803) / John Marshall -- A supreme law? -- An ordinance to nullify certain acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws laying duties and imports on the importation of foreign commodities (1832) -- The measure of an underdeveloped nation -- An act donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts (1862) -- High priest of holy war -- Second inaugural address (1865) / Abraham Lincoln -- The absorption of protest -- Populist Party platform (1892) -- Foreign policy by emotional management -- Address to Congess (on war aims and peace terms) (1918) / Woodrow Wilson -- Agrarian ideal applied to urban reality -- Agricultural adjustment act (1933) -- Self-interest masked by idealistic pronouncement -- Inaugural address (1949) / Harry S. Truman -- "Restored to the docket" -- Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. (1954) / Earl Warren -- The decay of American political rhetoric -- Principles, rhetoric, and action.

ISBN

• 0837114950
• 9780837114958
• 0337114950 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

71095503

OCLC

• ocm00082772
• 82772
• SCSB-204676

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library