Contemporary public speaking remains an important part of our national life and a substantial force in shaping current events. Many of America's most important moments and issues, such as wars, scandals, election campaigns, September 11, 2001, have been defined by oratory. Here, over 50 essays cover a substantial and interesting group of major American social, political, economic, and cultural figures from the 1960s to the present. Each entry explains the biographical forces that shaped a speaker and his or her rhetorical approach, focuses mainly on a discussion of the orator's major speeches within the context of historical events, and concludes with an appraisal of the speaker and his or her contribution to American political and social life. All entries incorporate chronologies of major speeches, bibliographies including primary sources, biographies, and critical studies and archival collections or Web sites appropriate for student research.
Entries include high profile individuals such as: John D. Ashcroft, Elizabeth Dole, Jerry Falwell, Anita Hill, Ralph Nader, Ronald Reagan, Janet Reno, Gloria Steinem, Malcolm X; and many others. Excerpts of major speeches and sidebars complement the text. Ideal for researchers and students in public speaking classes, American history classes, American politics classes, contemporary public address classes, and rhetorical theory/criticism classes.
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American Voices
An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Orators
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American Voices
An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Orators
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- John D. Ashcroft
- Elizabeth M. Birch
- Patrick J. Buchanan
- George Herbert Walker Bush
- George Walker Bush
- Robert Carlyle Byrd
- Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Toure)
- James Earl “Jimmy” Carter
- Cesar Estrada Chavez
- Ward L. Churchill
- Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton
- William Jefferson Clinton
- Mario Matthew Cuomo
- Thomas Andrew Daschle
- Angela Yvonne Davis
- Alan Dershowitz
- Elizabeth Hanford Dole
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Joycelyn Elders
- Jerry Falwell
- Louis Abdul Farrakhan
- Gerald Rudolph Ford
- Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.
- William Franklin (Billy) Graham, Jr.
- Anita Faye Hill
- Jesse Louis Jackson
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Sonia Johnson
- Barbara Charline Jordan
- Edward Moore Kennedy
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Robert Francis Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Larry Kramer
- Winona LaDuke
- Audre Geraldine Lorde
- Wilma Mankiller
- Thurgood Marshall
- William (Bill) Paul McCartney
- Russell Means
- Harvey Bernard Milk
- Ralph Nader
- Richard Milhous Nixon
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- H. Ross Perot
- Colin Luther Powell
- Ronald Wilson Reagan
- Janet Reno
- Donald H. Rumsfeld
- Antonin Scalia
- Al Sharpton
- Gloria Steinem
- George Corley Wallace
- Alyce Faye Wattleton
- Christine Todd Whitman
- Malcolm X
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors
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