The critical study of public address has changed in the twentieth century and will continue to evolve in the twenty-first. As the studies in this volume demonst

Tracing the history of political rhetoric in nineteenth-century America and Britain, Andrew W. Robertson shows how modern election campaigning was born. Roberts

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progr

This impressive collection joins the recent outpouring of exciting new work on American politics and political actors in the mid-nineteenth century. For several