The Description for this book, History of Rhetoric, Volume II: The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World 300 B.C.-300 A.D, will be forthcoming.

Few periods of American history have been studied more extensively or debated more intensely than the last four decades of the eighteenth century, during which

Revised thesis (Ph.D.)- -University of Chicago, Chicago, 2003.

A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subj