"Not afraid to tackle provocative topics in American culture, from gun violence and labor policies to terrorism and health care, Michael Moore has earned both applause and invective in his career as a documentarian. In such polarizing films as Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9…
Cover -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Peace and Its Discontents -- 1. Washington's Character and the Craft of Military Leadership -- 2. Origins and Development of the Newburgh Crisis -- 3. "By the dignity of your conduct": Th…
A germinal examination of rhetoric's beginnings through pre-fourth-century Greek texts
Cover -- THE KEYS OF POWER -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction: "Eloquence is forever a power"--Transcendentalism and the Search for New Gods -- 1. "Eloquence is the language of love": Sampson Reed and the Calling…
An exploration of the role of language arts in forming and expressing wisdom from Homer to Aristotle.
The New Deal era is hard to define with precision-in time or in ideology. Some historians use New Deal to designate the intense period of domestic reform legislation of the first Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, 1933-37. Others confine discussion of the era to the legis…
The "New Deal era" is hard to define with precision - in time or in ideology. This book contains essays that focus on the prewar period, with glimpses forward to the rhetoric of the approach to and engagement in World War II.