Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America by Sandra M. Gustafson

Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo

Sandra M. Gustafson

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history politics
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Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, eloquence was POWER. In this book, Sandra Gustafson examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic, and political speech...

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