Make it plain : standing up and speaking out / Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. ; with Lee A. Daniels. by Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), Jr., 1935-2021

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Rhetorical education in America / Cheryl Glenn, Margaret Lyday, Wendy Sharer, editors. by Glenn, Cheryl

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric, the "citizen-orator," and the revitalization of civic discourse in American life /…”
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Greek political imagery from Homer to Aristotle / Roger Brock. by Brock, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Gods as kings, kings as gods -- The state as a household -- The shepherd of the people -- The ship of state -- The body politic -- Leaders and communities: the archaic period c.750-480 bc -- Democracy and autocracy: the fifth century -- Orators and philosophers: the fourth century.…”
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The passionate empiricist : the eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the service of science / Marlana Portolano. by Portolano, Marlana

Table of Contents: “…A classical voice for American science -- An American Cicero -- Toward a democratic science : institution-building and the statesman orator -- Increase and diffusion of knowledge : setting the stage for the Smithsonian debate -- Adams's arguments in the Smithsonian debate : a rhetorical analysis -- The queen of sciences and her democratic champion : Adams's promotion of astronomy -- Invention and discovery, rhetorically speaking.…”
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Talkative polity : radio, domination, and citizenship in Uganda / Florence Brisset-Foucault. by Brisset-Foucault, Florence, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…The ebimeeza and the political culture of Kampala's upper class -- The political economy of radio speech -- The ebimeeza and the partisanization of Ugandan politics -- The ebimeeza as a Ganda patriotic stage -- "A constituency in itself": talk radio and the redefinition of political leadership -- Taming speech: the state's suitable citizens -- The bureaucratization of the ebimeeza and the desire for discipline -- An academic model of exclusive citizenship -- Silent voices, professional orators, and shattered dreams.…”
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Mourning happiness : narrative and the politics of modernity / Vivasvan Soni. by Soni, Vivasvan, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Solon's cryptic injunction : "Call no man happy until dead" -- A mourning happiness : the Athenian funeral oration -- Difficult happiness : the case of tragedy -- Aristotle's hermeneutic of happiness : the first forgetting -- The trial narrative in Richardson's Pamela : suspending the hermeneutic of happiness -- Effects of the trial narrative on the concept of happiness -- Marriage plot -- The tragedies of sentimentalism -- Kantian ethics and the discourses of modernity -- Happiness in revolution : erasing the political concept of happiness.…”
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Political dissent in democratic Athens : intellectual critics of popular rule / Josiah Ober. by Ober, Josiah

Table of Contents: “…The Fragility of Greatness: Funeral Oration of Pericles4. The Last Days of Pericles; D. …”
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Political communication in the Roman world / edited by Cristina Rosillo-Lopez.

Table of Contents: “…Representations of political communication -- The reception of Republican political communication : tacitus' choice of exemplary Republican orators in context / Henriette van der Blom -- Retouching a self-portrait (or How to adapt one's image in times of political change) : the case of martial in the light of Pliny the Younger / Rosario Moreno Soldevila.…”
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Daniel Webster and the oratory of civil religion / Craig R. Smith. by Smith, Craig R.

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The limits of altruism in democratic Athens / Matthew R. Christ. by Christ, Matthew Robert

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Dramatic justice : trial by theater in the age of the French Revolution / Yann Robert by Robert, Yann

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Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic. edited by R.C. Sobti, Aastha Sobti.

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