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"Hear O Israel"

The History of American Jewish Preaching, 1654-1970

University of Alabama Press

The only examination of the history of American Jewish preaching, from the settlement of the first Jews in the United States until 1970

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Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse

University of Alabama Press

Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse analyzes argumentation in ordinary disputes.

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Addressing Postmodernity

Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change

University of Alabama Press

Reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change

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Lift Every Voice

African American Oratory, 1787-1901

University of Alabama Press
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Popular Trials

Rhetoric, Mass Media, and the Law

Edited by Robert Hariman
University of Alabama Press

Contemporary scholarship illustrates the law’s increasingly powerful role in American life; legal education, in turn, has focused on the problems and techniques of communication. This book addresses these interests through critical study of eight popular trials: the 17th-century trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, and the 20th-century trials of Scopes, the Rosenbergs, the Chicago Seven, the Catonsville Nine, John Hinckley, Claus von Bulow, and San Diego Mayor Larry Hedgecock.

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Presidents and Protestors

Political Rhetoric in the 1960s

University of Alabama Press

An excellent and lucid introduction to the study of political rhetoric

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