The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in AmericaNYU Press, 1999 M09 1 - 292 páginas This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. At a time when social movements led by religious leaders, from Louis Farrakhan to Pat Buchanan, are playing a central role in American politics, James Darsey connects this radical tradition with its prophetic roots. |
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... flagged and failed. Even as they took up arms against the mother country, the members of the Second Continental Congress maintained a pose of 35 Prophecy as Sacred Truth: Self-Evidence Righteousness in the American Revolution.
... American Revolutionary rhetoric has been characterized as sympathetic to the ... American's bitter resistance to the introduction of a mild program of ... Revolution as merely a conservative defense of constitutional liberties. To ...
... revolutionary causes, suggesting their intensity, is seen again in another “Massachusettensis” letter: “There is a latent ... American Revolution." Even in other terms, however, the sentiment is unmistakable; Whig discourse was widely ...
... Revolution is a position not beyond controversy. Over the years, there have been debates among those who maintain the importance of natural law to the American argument, those who ... American Revolution, we Prophecy as Sacred Truth 39.
James Darsey. the public discussion leading up to the American Revolution, we must conclude, in Ernest Wrage's enduring formulation, that “a speech is an agency of its time, one whose surviving record provides a repository of themes and ...
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Wendell Phillips and | 61 |
The Passion | 85 |
The Word in Darkness III | 111 |
Joe McCarthys Rhetoric | 128 |
The Romantic Vision | 151 |
IO The Seraph and the Snake | 199 |
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Index | 269 |
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America James Darsey Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |