Oratorical Encounters
Selected Studies and Sources of Twentieth-Century Political Accusations and Apologies
Published on 24. February 1988
Book
Hardback
354 pages
978-0-313-25568-7 (ISBN)
Description
The first of its kind in the field of rhetoric, this book examines important speech encounters in the political life of twentieth-century America. The essays focus on significant speakers who have delivered political accusations against their opponents and on the orators who, in turn, have delivered apologies in order to protect their political standing. The essays treat these speech encounters as oratorical confrontations. Both accusatory and defending speeches are used to illuminate one another and to provide unique insight into the outcome of the encounters themselves. Each essay concludes with a bibliography of research materials, sources, and locations of speech texts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-0-313-25568-7 (9780313255687)
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Person
HALFORD ROSS RYAN is Professor of Public Speaking at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
Content
Foreword by Edward P. J. Corbett Preface Introduction Oratorical Encounters Apology as Attack: Senators La Follette vs. Robinson on Freedom of Speech by Carl R. Burgchardt The Scopes Trial: "Darrow vs. Bryan" vs. "Bryan vs. Darrow" by Thomas M. Lessl Accusations and Apologies from a General, a Senator, and a Priest by Susan Schultz Huxman and Wil A. Linkugel Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin vs. King Edward VIII by Halford Ross Ryan President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the "Purge" by G. Jack Gravlee President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur: A Study of Rhetorical Confrontation by Bernard K. Duffy Senator Richard M. Nixon's Apology for the "The Fund" by Halford Ross Ryan In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Rachel L. Holloway Nikita S. Krushchev vs. Dwight D. Eisenhower by Lawrence W. Haapanen Senator John F. Kennedy Encounters the Religious Question: "I Am Not the Catholic Candidate for President" by David Henry Eight Alabama Clergy vs. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Ronald K. Burke Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Chappaquiddick Tragedy by William L. Benoit President Richard M. Nixon and the Watergate Scandal by Craig Allen Smith Gerald R. Ford Encounters Richard Nixon's Legacy: On Amnesty and the Pardon by Bernard L. Brock CBS vs. Mobil Oil: Charges of Creative Bookeeping in 1979 by George N. Dionisopoulos and Steven L. Vibbert The Media and the Catholic Church vs. Geraldine Ferraro by Richard J. Jensen Elie Wiesel vs. President Ronald Reagan: The Visit to Bitburg by Robert V. Friedenberg President Ronald Reagan's Apologia on the Iran-Contra Affair by D. Ray. Heisey Glossary of Rhetorical Terms Speaker and Speech Index Subject Index