Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-294) and index.
Contents:
History and culture as rhetorical constraints : Cesar Chavez's letter from Delano / John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen. Rhetorical construction of history / E. Culpepper Clark and Raymie E. McKerrow -- Rhetorics of the past : history, argument, and collective memory / Bruce E. Gronbeck -- Theoretical implications of doing rhetorical history : groupthink, foreign policy making, and Vietnam / Moya Ann Ball -- Constitutive framework for rhetorical historiography : toward an understanding of the discursive (re)constitution of constitution in The Federalist papers / James Jasinski -- Oaths registered in heaven : rhetorical and historical legitimacy in the inaugural addresses of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln / James R. Andrews -- Borderland denouement : Missourians and the rhetorical inauguration of the unholy crusade, Spring 1861 / Timothy C. Jenkins -- Civil rights and the Cold War : a rhetorical history of the Truman administration's desegregation of the United States Army / Steven R. Goldzwig -- Deciding factor : the rhetorical construction of Mansfield's credibility and the Eisenhower administration's policy on diem / Gregory Allen Olson -- Declining honors : Dorothy Day's rhetorical resistance to the culture of heroic ascent / Carol J. Jablonski -- History and culture as rhetorical constraints : Cesar Chavez's letter from Delano / John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen.
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