This expansive collection provides readers with the two essential elements they need in order to master contemporary
public address, rhetorical criticism, and persuasion: significant speeches and critical essays written by rhetorical
scholars. This collection of 37 speeches and 12 essays is an excellent resource, offering the texts of timely and
interesting discourse!
Table of Contents
1. A Moral Necessity for Birth Control (Margaret Sanger)
2. On His Ninetieth Birthday (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
3. First Inaugural Address (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
4. Roosevelt's First Inaugural: A Study of Technique (Halford Ross Ryan)
5. War Address (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
6. Every Man a King (Huey P. Long)
7. The Analysis of Demagogic Discourse: Huey Long's "Every Man a King" Address
(Paul C. Gaske)
8. A Third Party (Charles E. Coughlin)
9. The Struggle for Human Rights (Eleanor Roosevelt)
10. Far Eastern Policy (Harry S Truman)
11. Harry S Truman: A Misdirected Defense for MacArthur's Dismissal (Halford Ross Ryan)
12. Don't Scuttle the Pacific (Douglas MacArthur)
13. President Harry S Truman and General Douglas MacArthur: A Study of Rhetorical
Confrontation (Bernard K. Duffy)
14. My Side of the Story (Richard M. Nixon)
15. A Value Analysis of Richard Nixon's 1952 Campaign-Fund Speech (Henry E. McGuckin, Jr.)
16. The War in Vietnam (Richard M. Nixon)
17. Vietnam (Frank Church)
18. Cambodia (Richard M. Nixon)
19. The Serious Situation in Little Rock (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
20. Speech to Greater Houston Ministerial Association (John F. Kennedy)
21. Senator John F. Kennedy Encounters the Religious Question: "I Am Not the Catholic Candidate
for President" (David Henry)
22. Inaugural Address (John F. Kennedy)
23. Arms Quarantine of Cuba (John F. Kennedy)
24. The Presidency and Speeches on International Crises: Repeating the Rhetorical Past (Theodore
Otto Windt, Jr.)
25. I Have a Dream (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
26. Gulf of Tonkin (Lyndon B. Johnson)
27. The Right to Vote (Lyndon B. Johnson)
28. LBJ's Voting Rights Address: Adjusting Civil Rights to the Congress and the Congress to Civil
Rights (Halford Ross Ryan)
29. To Mississippi Youth (Malcolm X)
30. Eulogy on Sir Winston Churchill (Adlai E. Stevenson)
31. Television Statement to the People of Massachusetts (Edward M. Kennedy)
32. A Pentadic Analysis of Senator Edward Kennedy's Address to the People of Massachusetts,
July 25, 1969 (David A. Ling)
33. Television News Coverage (Spiro T. Agnew)
34. For the Equal Rights Amendment (Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm)
35. Democratic Convention Keynote Address (Barbara C. Jordan)
36. Barbara Jordan's Keynote Address: The Juxtaposition of Contradictory Values (Wayne N.
Thompson)
37. The Panama Canal Treaties (Jimmy Carter)
38. Keynote Address (Mario Cuomo)
39. The Rhetorical Dynamics of Mario Cuomo's 1984 Keynote Address: Situation, Speaker,
Metaphor (David Henry)
40. The Rainbow Coalition (Jesse Jackson)
41. A Time for Choosing (Ronald Reagan)
42. Ronald Reagan and "The Speech": The Rhetoric of Public Relations Politics (Kurt W. Ritter)
43. Lebanon and Grenada (Ronald Reagan)
44. Apologia on Iranian Arms Sales (Ronald Reagan)
45. Tufts University Commencement Speech (Gloria Steinem)
46. Keynote Address (Ann Richards)
47. Inaugural Address (George Bush)
48. The Brady Bill (Sarah Brady)
49. Choices and Change (Barbara Bush)
