American Political Rhetoric: A Reader - Softcover

Lawler, Peter A.; Schaefer, Robert Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847680479 ISBN 13: 9780847680474

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995

Synopsis

Expanded to include the issues of gender, foreign policy, and the role of the judiciary, the new edition of this popular text provides introductory students with some of the best examples of American political rhetoric, from "The Declaration of Independence" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." In each chapter, different voices speak to a major theme in American political rhetoric. In addition to excerpts from pivotal Supreme Court cases, the text includes contributions from such diverse sources as The Federalist, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mario Cuomo, Robert Bork, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Vaclav Havel.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Augustine Lawler is professor of political science at Berry College in Georgia. Robert Martin Schaefer is assistant professor of political science at the University of Mobile. They are the editors of The American Experiment: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Liberty (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994.)

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847680479
• ISBN 13: 9780847680474
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 320